Italy!

Well because I'm lazy and don't really feel like writing about EVERYTHING in both cities in Italy we will do the short hand version lol. We went to Florence(for 4-5 days ie wayyy too long) and Rome for 3 days.

Florence the first day was amazing so warm and sunny and great. We walked pretty much the entire city that morning haha and went to all of the outdoor markets. There was so much leather there I didn't realize how big it really was here! But the city is really beautiful on the sunny days just stunning. The afternoon we spent laying out on the terrace of our hostel bc we had to get some sun lol. It was amazing just to relax and take it easy. the next 3 days it rained and rained some more. lol the girls spent 2 of those 3 days in the hostel sitting around. I went out alone one of the days and explored and went into some of the sites. But sat inside with them the other day bc it was raining so hard i didn't feel like being out in it. We ate gelato pretty much every single day at least once a day haha. We ate more pb&j just so we could afford to keep getting gelato. We also had some amazing brick oven pizza that was to die for!

Rome was just as impressive as I had expected it to be. We ran into some girls from Holland in our hostel and one of them hung out with us most of the trip. We went and saw the colosseum, palatino(where rome was started!) the forum(old shopping district), vatican city, some random castle I don't remember the name of lol where i dropped my water bottle on some ladies head (but it was ok bc she was being a jerk to us ha karma baby),the pantheon(only my fav old building on earth!), the spanish steps, as well as a ton of other places we just came across on our walks. we thought the city would be a lot bigger than it was but we easily walked everywhere without any issues. We only ate out once here to save money and it was not a good experience. they tried to charge us for the bread they brought without asking. But the girl from holland argued with him and he made a big public fuss about it but finally took it off and we walked away angry. oh well the rest of rome was great! so we will just forget about that little incident haha. then we hung out in the airport for a while having far too much fun lol. The girls are still fascinated how i packed all my stuff in that backpack but i guess i have crazy childhood moving experiences to thank for that! hopefully my packing skills will help me get everything home again!

overall we laughed a ton, ate amazing food, ran into a surprising amount of people that we knew, spent way too much money, and had a blast! but honestly I have never been so happy to go back to Ireland haha.

but now 15 days away from coming back to the states(yay!). Finals start next monday for me. I have one monday, tuesday, thursday, and friday ick! then my last one on the 22nd and then I fly home on the 23rd! I'm going to be beat that day though because I'm going to be sleeping in the airport on the 22nd waiting for my early flight on the 23rd since no buses run before my flight sad day. So I'm taking one the night before and just chilling. It will be my last crazy European adventure!

Happy Spring!