Super Martedí

Even though I am 6000 miles from my nearest polling place and the poor sad high school students working them, I voted today! I didn't get a sticker, or check for hanging chads, but I did get to witness the democratic 40y+ expat community of florence.They still ride bikes and have 4 cats in a small apartment and "can't take a vacation until the cat with the kidney issue dies." In such a great country! Che Triste!
Either way, I took an afternoon in the city today. It was a great sight that I witnessed without my camera but can tell you about. I saw 2 little girls dressed in bright pink pippy longstockings wigs and fairy wings and a 7 year old boy dressed like a warrior from ancient troy, sandals and all. A girl in a stroller dressed in a silver space-suit and the same skullet'd man in black trench coat who I ride the bus with more frequently than is normal.
Super Tuesday in the US, also Mardi Gras, is the final day of Carnivale here in Italy and I took it to validate all but the latter natives I saw dressed up today. It's kinda like Halloween, except it happens in the spirit of honoring a promise to yourself starting on Wednesday with the 40 days Lent.
There was confetti on every block and all around were quite jovial. In the spirit of it all I purchased by own Carnivale costume. That is all for now. Please see below.