Ciao to America.
Well good evening here, good afternoon to you all.
So sorry there has been no update until today. Long weekend.
So I will start with Thursday night, went over to my friends apartment and planned out what we were going to do Friday and the holiday weekend and then just hung out for a bit.
Well stupid me decided to do my brother’s Spartacus workout Thursday and let’s just say waking up Friday morning was more than rough. I waddled around Florence and made it to the train station to meet my friends to go to Siena. They all were laughing at my total inability to walk all weekend. I can’t lie and say I didn’t look ridiculous but I couldn’t help it!!
Thankfully in a way I was not the only sore one, my friend Briana had done a workout class Thursday too so we dealt with the pain together in Siena Friday. It was horrible to go up and down steps and even to just walk in general!!!! I cannot even explain it! Haha
But we made it to Siena and it is a very pretty place. We really didn’t have anywhere we really wanted to go so we just went to the center on the bus. They also had this cute little mall we went through, didn’t really know they had American looking malls over here!! Haha
We all were pretty hungry and figured “The Shell” area, which is the center, was too pricey, so we all ventured off to find food. Briana had never had a sandwich over here yet and Amy, Briana, and I all saw this GREAT looking sandwich shop that we tried to find from earlier but totally failed. We all had the plan of finding the food we wanted and then going back to eat together in the shell area since it was so nice out, but that failed. Everyone else did, but us 3 finally had to give up and find other things. I got this awesome thing I can def. compare to my obsession sandwich, it was like this thin layer of dough, kind of like a stuffed pizza with potatoes, cheese, and ham in between, but I am pretty sure it was hot dog and not ham. Haha! It was sooooo good though and totally one of my favorite foods over here now!!
Then we walked around for a few hours, saw their Duomo, churches, shopped a bit, etc. Pretty sure I wanted to fall over and sleep for hours afterwards because of the pain I was in!! haha But I made it! We stumbled upon their residential areas and it was very pretty! I got so many cool photos that is for sure! Their shops around the town are so cute but SO pricey! Haha But I did see a few purses I could only dream of buying that were bright orange and then another one was bright blue! My favorite colors, so ironic.
Then instead of taking the train back, we took a bus. Can’t tell you how much my body appreciates sitting on buses for over an hour now! Haha
But then we came back and ate dinner and got ready to celebrate national drink wine day. Celebrated it, needless to say never will celebrate that holiday again. Like my Aunt Marie said, I will leave that holiday for the Aunts and everyone else to celebrate! J haha
Then Saturday, woke up and met my friends for lunch at this American hamburger and fries place…… probably the first restaurant hamburger I have had in ages and the third time I have eaten fries in a few years. The hamburger and fries were SO good though. However, we only went here AFTER my sandwich place ran out of my sandwich. I wanted to initiate the 3 of them to my delicious sandwich but that failed. It’s just so good, the place usually is out of them by the 1:00 time range sadly. So then we went back and napped. We were supposed to go to Assisi or somewhere else but the train was too pricey and we were not in much shape to go from being so tired. But then of course we had to celebrate national margarita day and we went to this Mexican restaurant (doesn’t compare to my lovely Qdoba) that is known for their peach margaritas. They were soooo good! Frozen too! And then for the first time I got to try Strawberry margaritas but those didn’t have too much flavor sadly! So will def. have to try strawberry margaritas somewhere else cause everyone says they’re so good! Then we all went back and hung out for a bit and then went out to this karaoke bar for a bit. Needless to say it was kind of hard to celebrate my 2nd favorite national culinary holiday over here, so summer, my friends prep yourselves to celebrate the holiday a few months late! J
Sunday morning I woke up bright and early and horribly skyped Seigs for a little bit L sadly did not last long due to the horrible connection! Then I was barely tired and ready to go and met Haleigh for lunch and finally initiated her to my sandwich place. SO good. I just love that sandwich way too much and wish I could check a bag full of them when I go home. Haha! Then I went back over to my friends’ apartment and we all just hung out for a bit and did homework and tried to plan for Venice this weekend, aka the trip that will give me nightmares for weeks to come. Tylonel PM won’t even be able to do the trick of putting me to sleep after this trip. Then came back here and skyped my momma and daddy and nikki! My stupid internet is totally failing lately so sorry everyone for the horrible connection!
Today I had special events and then Italian and then worked out and then customer relations. I am just now not really feeling the soreness from my dang workout Thursday!! Haha! Needless to say, I am pretty much making that workout be a daily Thursday thing now so I am never in that much pain again! Finally got to skype with my cousin Kelly again today, hopefully one of these days she can skype me from papa’s because I miss him so much!! One of these days I hope someone in my family has a computer around mama and papa too so I can see them!
This whole depending on computers to talk to everyone is so annoying! I miss my phone L haha!
But anyways, so what else is new in my life?
Well SPRING BREAK is finally planned. Nikki is coming to Florence and I am beyond excited! We were supposed to go to London, but it was going to be pricey and what not, so now she is coming here! I didn’t realize how long it takes to get around Florence so now we are probably going to explore all of Florence, cook a lot together, find every bakery around town, maybe take some day trips, and tour some places! I am so excited and cannot freeking wait, nik- you know I’m going to cry asap when I see you so prep for that! Haha
And then other GREATTTTTT news! I am going to Dublin the first weekend in April! SO what does this mean! Shelley’s 3 trips she had to do will be accomplished!!!!! Sicily- check. Sound of Music tour- check. DUBLIN- check. J I could not be any more excited for Dublin! I am so ready to explore that place it’s not even funny! I will have like 5 facebook albums. Seriously! Had Salzburg been better weather, Ainsley and I would have had so many more photos!!
And then this weekend……….Venice Carnival weekend……….New Orleans Mardi Gras x10…… Aka nightmare city. Why you ask? MASKS! I am deathly afraid of masks. I am actually more afraid probably of masks than I am spiders! I am excited to go to Venice with my friends yes, because it was on my list of places to go, but I must mentally prep myself to not pass out at the sight of all these masks. I will make it- I know, but I might be traumatized by the end!! Haha! Trust me, I will have one heck of an interesting blog after this weekend!
Hmmmmmmmmm……… What else. Tomorrow is my baking class and we are supposed to make danishes and croissants so prep for those photos that is for sure! I am pretty excited for that!
Well until an update tomorrow, you all have a great rest of your President’s Day! Love and miss you all!
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