Day 12: Finally a day to relax - sort of.

Fortunately for us all of our guests had plans to go out and about touring the area the day after the wedding and unfortunately for us some friends left to continue thier adventures elsewhere.  As for us...our plan was to do absolutely nothing, finally!  We slept in and lazily made our way out of bed and out to forage for some breakfast.  Again lucky for us the wedding cake was huge so there were plenty of leftovers for breakfast!  Shannon decided to take our car and drive around the flower filled fields near our villa and take some photos so we were the only ones left.  While we were at the table we talked about what lazy things we would like to do for the day.  I wanted to take some pictures of the villa and asked Dan where the camera was.  A strange look came over his face followed by a look of sheer panic.  He got up from the table to look for it but he was pretty sure that he had left the camera on the chair, in the restaurant, in Siena town square at lunch before the wedding.  Oh boy.  I tried to remain calm as that hunch became a for sure reality.  I honestly felt bad for Dan and I didn't want him in beating himself up until we found out if it was still there or not. 
"What was the name of the restaurant Dan?"
"I don't know.  It was one of the ones on the square with the big awnings."
"Well, that's a lot of restaurants.  Any way you can narrow it down?"
"It was the place we had the pizza the first day...with the orange chairs!"
"To GoogleMaps!!!"
Thankfully we had wifi at the villa so we jumped online and went to street view on GoogleMaps and thankfully we were able to see where the restaurant was and they didn't have the awnings down in the map so we could see the name of the restaurant.  Now fingers crossed that they had a website or were listed.  They were...we called...they had our camera!  Unbelievable honestly.  I thought for sure someone ended up with our brand new expensive camera.  Now we had to drive to Siena on our relax day though.  That is, as soon as we had a car to use.  At least we could rest easy that the restaurant was holding on to it. 

Since we really didn't have a very nutritious breakfast we put together a little plate of what we could scrounge up in the fridge - olives, cheese, meats, fruit and such - and went out to the sprawling lawn to sit in the warm sun and eat and chat.  At some point a handsome gentleman comes up the driveway and we try to talk to him but no luck since none of us speaks a same language.  I thought he was there to pick up the lanterns for the wedding planner so I called her to see if she could translate for us.  Turns out he was the groundskeeper and he just wanted to check in and make sure we had everything we needed and he thought we were asking him where we could buy the lamps and how much they cost...hahahaa!  Back to our leisurely lunch.  Shannon rolls up and comes to hang out with us and we go exploring in the garden maze.  We find some incredible roses growing, a bunch of giant snail shelss and some shotgun shells.  Hmmmm, maybe we should get out of here and on the road to Siena.  So off we go.

We get there without event and end up needing a little help from a local on getting out of the parking garage but we make it to the restaurant.  As we are walking up to the restaurant there is a server standing outside and before we even say anything he says to us "Camera?" and takes us inside.  We are expecting a grand inquisition before they hand it over but there is none.  I assumed that since the guy recognized us that they went through our pics on the camera and were gone quiz us on it.  Whatever, glad to have it back.  We decided to wander a bit around town ourselves since we drove all this way and didn't really want to get back in the car just yet.  We really wanted some good pizza but didn't want to get it from any of the overpriced places on the square.  This took us to the outskirts of Siena and back and since it was getting dark and we were getting to that murderous stage of hunger we said, "The next place we come across is the place we are going to eat."  Too bad we said that because we ate at the McDonald's of pizza places.  The pizza was hideous, the soda had no ice and was only half full and the place was full of loud teenagers.  After we ate I had to pee.  So I found the sign for the bathroom and started the long, dark, deep descent to the ladies room.  Seriously, the bathrooms were three flights down the steepest stairs I've ever walked.  And it started to get darker and darker with flickering flourescents the deeper you got.  When I got into the ladies room I felt like I had been transported in to a horror flick.  I did my business and got the hell out of there.  When I got back to the table I told Dan he had to check out the bathrooms and sent him down without any warnings. Heeheehee. 

On the way back to the parking garage we were walking up a steep twisted road and walked under a big arch and as we get through we look to the sky to see the most picturesque moon blazing above a water fountain.  Uh...is this for real?  We snap some pictures and get back on the path to the parking garage stopping along the way to kiss under the harvest moon and take some more pictures of the city at night.  We get to our car and drive up to the gate at the parking garage and put in our ticket.  It tells us how much we owe but there is no place to put money or run a card.  Weird.  And of course the garage was a ghost town until we get to the gate when a line of cars suddenly pops up behind us.  I get out and ask the guy in the car behind us who we have to pay and he said that there are machines up a few levels that we have to pay and get a ticket.  Great, now we have to make everyone behind us back up so we can turn around and park and go find these machines.  Machines found, ticket paid, parking lot exited, Honey and Dan go to the villa and hang with remaining friends and family before hitting the sack.  How's that for a wrap up?

The rest of the pics you can see here:  http://flic.kr/s/aHsjzVLpwf