From Ripon to Florence : Italia con i mi genitori

Sorry this has taken me so long to post but my parents did in fact make it to Italy and even though it took us two days to connect, we have been seeing the sights of Italy for a little under a week.
The long and the short of the story is they had a hell of a trip in. While I had smooth flights and NO problems hopping from country to country, my parents encountered and air strike that re routed their flight to Pisa, not Florence, didn't allow them to take off from Paris to get into Italy, left them sitting on plans for hours, and trapped them on a shuttle bus to get into Florence. They left Milwaukee Thursday and while they should have landed at 4 pm Friday in Florence, they landed closer to 7 pm in Pisa and did not get to their hotel until late and did not get wifi until the next day.
To say I was livid was the understatement of the century. When I started to bike to summer school the summer of my freshmen year of high school, I had to call my mother and let her know I made it to school safely because we didn't have texting. Now, at almost 21 years of age, I get told off if I don't text my parent that I got to the grocery store okay. So the fact that my parents were failing to communicate with me if they were even in the same country as I was, let alone on the continent, or at all safe had me really really frustrated.
When I did get a hold of me they explained they didn't have wifi. I was still mad, but I started to cool off as I understood.
We met up on Sunday, and mom, dad and I went to Fiesole with Sam for the day before she had to get back on a train to Rome to catch her flight back to Jordan. We had a nice family dinner at a restaurant near their Villa (which is about the farthest place from my host mom's house they could have chosen to stay in, however it is beyond nice which they totally deserve.)
Monday we caught a train and spent three days in Venice. It was really cool to get to see the city again, especially since I had wanted to go back so badly when I first visited it about a month ago. Showing my parents around Venice was great, and proved to me how much I had actually learned while I was there, but it also showed me that I had been there and I had done that and I don't NEED to go back anymore. Maybe in 30 years, I'll visit again, but I'm ready to move on and see more of the world. In fact, I'm not planing on coming back to Italy for a while simply because I'm seeing so much while I'm here. And that is great and I'm so happy with that. I don't feel like I'll really be missing much. I'll come back and do the south, and hike all of the Cinque Terre (especially since I don't think I'll make it there this trip) but I'm in no pressing hurry to come back-rather I'm gunning to see more of the world. I've decided next stop is Ireland. But alas, I digress.
I took my parents to San Marco's square and we went to Morano on Tuesday and spent the day looking at ALL the glass (and buying lots of it) and on Wednesday I took them to the Academia so they could see the Vitruvian man too.
Thursday we spent the morning at the Uffizi (seeing some Boticelli) and the afternoon at the Academia here in Florence to see David of course. And today I took them to see the view of Florence and then walking down to the old city walls, and found Gusta Pizza for lunch and after we hit up the Boboli gardens (dad and I had to see as many of the settings of Inferno as we could!)
Thats the brief catch up of what we've done the past couple of days. I'll go into more detail later (when its not midnight,) but I figured I would take the spare moments to sit down and tell everyone my parents are here and enjoying their trip (even if they are leaving shortly). If all goes according to plan, we should be hitting up Pisa and the markets tomorrow!