You wanna Pisa pizza?

You know why Pisa is famous, Thousands of tourists unload from the trains, Rick Steves guidebooks firmly in hand, and hustle straight for the tower. After being jostled in the crowd, we took the road less traveled by, and that made all the difference.

Pisa is really a pleasant and interesting town. Galileo, the maverick of the science community in the 16th Century, was a professor at the university. All his student’s grades dropped, and he was able to prove that they fell at the same rate regardless of their mass. Something to do with gravity. We learned all about it at the Galileo Museum, but who can keep track of all those little details? Anyway, Andrea Bocelli also went to law school in Pisa, then it was Time to Say Goodbye.

After a leisurely stroll through town without tourists, we arrived at the Tower, which is really a bell tower for a beautiful cathedral, but who cares about that stuff? Did you see that it leans!? The crowd of tourists all want to show off their ability to take funny selfies showing that they understand perspective, like holding up the tower or pushing it down. Strangely enough, the entire world finds this really funny, from Japan to Russia to Colorado.

Once we broke free of those shenanigans and the pack of thirty aggressive men selling selfie sticks, we made it to the real reason we came: to have a Pisa pizza. The hordes of tourists, surprisingly, did not find the same humor in this.

"I know, let me hold my hand like this! No one has ever done it like that before!"

Cotton Candy Bear wanted to show a bit more of the cathedral in his selfie. Note, he doesn't yet understand perspective.

We got in on the fun too. I bet no one has held up the tower in an ussie before

My favorite part of this one is that it looks like it's standing upright. But she's about to push it over. Perspective...

May the peace of this piece of Pisa pizza be with you - say it out loud, you'll thank me