bungalos, karaoke, & getting kicked out of pools

Thursday night we all met up at Hard Rock, for our leader Becky's last night. She has to go to a conference in New York, and now Tom takes over. Here at Hard Rock, I was walking back into the resturant when I bumped into this man, and I looked up to say "sorry excuse meee, Jeffff" IT WAS JEFF FOXWORTHY and I was just so caught off guard that I stood there with me mouth wide open, and he just laughed at me and walked outside. By the time I got my self together and walked outside, he was gone!! BUMMER!!! That night we all went to this open Piazza called Campo Di Firore where we found this bar called the Drunken Ship, they had beer pong and flip cup going on which was alot of fun. Mom - they had the wierdest drinks with the wierdest drinks, andddd one was close to Fishnets and Hookers, hahaha.

Friday we left for Florence for the weekend. Florence was beautiful. On our way to the hostel we got off at the wrong stop and had to walk up hill in the blistering hott sun, then we finally got back on the bus ... only to go one more stop and then we were at our "hostel". The hostel we stayed at was a campsite with tents, and I mean ligit tents. So we tried to make ourselves feel better and call them bungalos. We all know that I hate camping, but this actually was alot of fun, and an experience to rememeber. Our campsite was up on this hill, the most beautiful view of the city. It is known for its view, so this was a plus for staying there. In Florence we went sight seeing ... the Duomo, this church that looks like it is out of place and not real, it is sooo intricate and beautiful. We also saw some other churches, and this bridge and according to my friend Matt it is the only bridge to stand after WWII. Dinner that night was at this resturante in a piazza where we got free carosel rides with our meal, but the stupid mean Italian lady wouldnt let us ride because we were too big. So we all gave our tickets to these families that were right there, because there is no way that I was giving my card to that stuck up italian lady. That night we went to this bar called Red Garter, where we all finally got to do kareokee. This was a blast. My friends Allison and Kelly and I did Sweet Caroline, and the crowd went wild. These guys said that our applause was the best he heard all night. Hahaha, its all about song choice!!

Saturday we walked around downtown again, got some sovenirs for some lucky people at home. That night we started this bar crawl, but after the second bar a few of us met up with my friend Matt who was in Florence too. We met up with him and his friend at this street festival that was going on the famous bridge in Florence. After the festival we walked around to look for another place to go to buttt we were unsuccessful so we all layed on the street and stared at the Duomo. I mean straight up stared, no words were spoken just serious staring. That night me and Alysa went back to their hostel because they had a pool. Only to find out that the pool was closed, so we were all sitting outside, when we were told to silencio! (not the first time that weekend that that happened to me and alysa -- the night before this lady stood outside our tent and clapped and told us to silencio!) While we were sitting there these kids walked to the door to the pool and pulled a little harder than we did and magically the door opened, and so we all went swimming. I was trying to get the suana started and I pressed this button, but Matt thinks I pressed an alarm button because only moments later we were being kicked out of the pool by the security guard. This of course would only happen to me ... sometimes on this trip I think that I will forever be known as Death Cloud, thanks family -- that bad month I had will forever haunt me!! Nothing happened because all ran for ourlives and hid. Needless to say I had to sleep in my wet clothes! (Mom I know what you are thinking .. not only did I swim in my clothes but I slept in them as well)

Sunday we went sight seeing again and got to see the David. Beautiful human being, with a nice butt haha! On the way to the train station we got lunch at this resturant in a piazza, I had delicious gnocchi with meat sauce!! I am going to miss this food for sure when I get home!!!

This week we have class and finally a beach day on Tuesday!! Thank goodness because it has been sooo hottttt!!! And then this weekend is LONDON!!!!!!! I cant wait.