Voice Notes

It’s Day 3, and spirits are high—especially Perri’s, who has somehow eaten so much actual dairy without pooping her pants and throwing up. America, take notes.

 

The day needed to lay low, sponsored by The Quils (DayQuil & NyQuil) which thankfully fueled a 10.5-hour sleep session for the a lingering cold Taylor is beating.

But by afternoon, we rallied for a walking tour… which turned out to be more of an art history deep dive than a general Florence overview. We learned stuff like Renaissance architecture is all about inner awakening and a super cool guy literally invented background painting right where we were standing. Who knew that paintings once avoided backgrounds because it's not a natural human thing to know how to paint in perspective? I'm not kidding. 

 

Florence feels ancient but totally self-assured, like it knows exactly who it is. And it can strut and flex all it wants because, well, it's Florence for goodness' sake. Also, we’re now convinced the world needs a Spotify for self-guided history tours. Stay tuned for our inevitable app launch on that... 

Chat to you tomorrow!

Live from Florence (or, as the locals call it… something we are trying to learn to pronounce), we bring you Day Two! Perri potentially had the best sleep of her life and Taylor stared at the ceiling from 1 AM - 6 AM.

 

We explored Florence today! Taylor’s highlight? A glass box of a nun’s neatly arranged bones (because she was a really cool lady). Perri’s was big, big doors...? Eh, I guess you'll get it when you listen. 

 

We ate mushy wraps on a bridge, tried to get our heads around how we got here, ate incredible food, all while Taylor was busy trying to knock out a nasty cold and being a history learning machine. 

 

In other news: Perri is testing her dairy tolerance with reckless abandon. No consequences… yet, so stay tuned for potential disaster if you're invested. 

 

Signing off from Florence—where we may not sleep, but we do get our steps in. We like it here!

Hi & welcome to day 1! If you missed our goofy little recap/intro, we figured the best way to share our three-month adventure abroad is by recording ourselves processing our days—usually in bed and a little delirious (or at least so far). 

Some days we’ll have way too many stories and other days, not. That’s the fun of voice notes—doing real moments, big or small, together. We hope you laugh with us!

Odds are that you're our parents, and if so, you know exactly who we are, that we flew to Europe, and why. Hi mom & dad! But, if you somehow found us and you're not our lovely and loving guardians, here's an intro to our verbal journal as we process this trip, life, and all things in between. Welcome to Voice Notes. :)