Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Special Olympics kills me

so sunday morning i dropped off pat at the airport and sasha and i very last minute decided to randomly meet in pisa and then go to sienna. since my phone is awful and wsnt working, we discussed this sat night and sunday when i got back home we made a decision and within an hour i showered, packed and left. i waited for the bus way too long, hit traffic and missed the first-and much cheaper train, to pisa. the bus kicked us off not even halfway there adn had us walked 5 miles to a metro. the special olymics job or something was going on and buses stopped running joy. so not knowing where i was at all, i followed people to the metro, all of them getting lost and confused. i left my place at 11, i got to the train station finally at 115. i bought the tickets and with my phone card used up all my money trying to call sahsa which didnt work. i got a text saying she was on her train, so i bought my much more expensive ticket and got on mine. finally we both made it there at 5. went to our hostel, dropped out bags and took pictures of the leaning tower of pisa of course. we then got food and made out way to one of the best places in pisa for gelato. it was good. it was in the same small square where the only bar seemed to be and we hung there for a bit before going back early because we were both exhausted. pisa dsnt have a night life. we passed out and woke up at 8 to see the tower again and catch our train to sienna.
we got on the train and since the machine and ticket didnt specify we had to transfer at a train station we took it all the way to florence instead of sienna. we then hopped a train in florence to sienna, and got to sienna an hour later then planned.
having skipped breakfast we decided to just get this buffet instead of finding one of the restaurant we wrote down. we then went to his amazing huge castle in this piazza that everyone hangs in and in the sun it was nice and warm. we climed the bell tower and had the most amazing view of sienna. its soooo gorgous and it seems it looks like what u would think italy looks like, pretty green hills and a little country with some houses...just so pretty! the bell rang while we were up there too which was fun. we then went to see the duemo and then got gelato and sat in the piazza in the sun infront of the castle like everyone else did.
we then hurried ourselves back to the train station where sasha literally just hopped on it before it left.
i then ran to the bathroom in the mall and made it back to my train only 20 minutes later. took the train to the place where i was supposed to transfer, got on that train and finally came back to rome.
it was a long 2 days of travel, very busy and very sleepless it seemed. but so much fun! it was great to see sasha, especially after having to say bye to pat. more of my friends from home need to come here. its also great that i dnt have monday classes and neither does sasha. except now i must start getting ready for my stupid class at 2. i dnt want to go back to school! cant spring break be forever?

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