WOW Italy!

So I have officially found my favorite country :)

I mean how can you go wrong with icecream for meals... really?

Florence was gorgeous. I´m pretty sure every city in Europe is on water or has a river running through the middle or something like that. It was so much fun. We went and watched the sunset on this hill that overlooks the entire city. It was gorgeous! We ended up going back the next night also. There are so many shops and museums, we couldn´t do it all, so we went to the Academia which has all kinds of Michealangelo stuff including the David which is actually really neat. Huge and so life like... I can explain more if you want, but I dont want to bore anyone on here. It was just a fun couple days with talking to random Spanish speakers that we would run into and walking around and seeing the town. So nice. I felt more like I was on a movie set than that people actually live there. So many more stories... but they are so much better in person so I´ll tell you when I see you!

Then we were off to Venice. (I think we need trains in the US. Apparently we have them and I never knew, but I think we need to use them.) We walked around and around the island and that was all you need to do. When people say that you should just try to get lost and that that is the fun of it, it´s completely true. And you don´t really even have to try. It was a nice last stop because it was so chill. Walk around, get a gelato, sit in a plaza, walk around, sit with your feet dangling in the water, walk around, etc. 2 days of that. Can´t complain. We didn´t do the whole hard core gondola ride (it´s sooo expensive) but there are places along the Grand Canal that you can take a Gondola across for like a dollar. It´s seriously a 2 minute ride, but so worth it. We were thinking about just going back and forth and back and forth, but didn´t :). It´s a gorgeous little town and Laura and I had a great time.

Finally, it came time for us to part, she was going back to Madrid and I had to come back to Sevilla so I got the train to Pisa. I spent the night in Pisa and got up early to see the tower before my flight (we´re talking 5am) and I walked over. The gates were closed when I got there but there were a bunch of British guys who had jumped the fence to get better pictures with the tower. They were telling me that I can´t come to the tower of Pisa just to get a picture through the fence and helped me jump it (foot in a boot, a little more difficult). Right after I got over, a security guard pulls up. OH NO! Luckily one of the British guys knew Italian and sweet talked us out of it using me as the excuse for everyone being over there lol. I´m not going to lie that I was a bit scared though. Can´t miss my flight because I´m in an Italian jail. I just kept saying, really, I never jump fences hahaha. But nothing happened, they just opened the gate for us. Weren´t even mad I guess. And although I had an invite to go the the European Cup soccer game with them in Rome, I turned it down and now I´m in Sevilla again.

I´m staying with an English girl that I met while I was here and she is hilarious. I´m at the school right now and have said hi and bye to everyone for the last time. I´m having dinner with Maria Louisa and Miguel tonight and then tomorrow, after all day in the air, I´ll finally get back to the states.

I´m so ready to be back. Really just content. I´ve loved it here, but ready to be home. Ready to move on. It´s been amazing and I can´t wait to see you all!!!!