Spring "can't catch a" Break

Don't make plans in life because when you get so excited about visiting so many different amazing places a volcano in Iceland can go off and ruin it all. A little bit of turmoil this week with everything that could go wrong going wrong(cancelled flights were the least of our worries, I could write a whole blog on everything else that went wrong but that probably wouldn't be the most fun read) but although Prague and Dublin will have to wait I did get to see a lot of Italy and it was an experience nonetheless.

We sat in the Pisa airport, outside of Florence which we did get to see and was amazing, for pretty much a whole day just staring at eachother after realizing we weren't making it to Prague or Dublin wondering what the heck we were going to do for a week while stranded in Italy. We eventually went to the train station and hopped on the first train to Rome. I don't mean to sound ungrateful, there could be worse things than being stranded in Italy, but when you have plans to do something really amazing and all of a sudden they fall through, it kinda sucks. Not knowing where you are going to stay that night or what the heck we should do in Rome for four days is pretty exhilirating at first but then reality sets in and you realize you have no idea where you are going to stay that night or what the heck we should do in Rome for four days! Rome was beautiful nonetheless with so many things to see, we were defnitely not pressed for things to do, and I also got to go to Cinque Terre(the most beautiful region on the coast north west of Florence), and Pisa for a night. I will always be able to tell the story about how I got stranded in Italy for a week because a Volcano(since when are there even volcanos in Iceland) went off in Iceland(Iceland? Really?) and now have an even bigger desire to return to Europe in the future. Everything happens for a reason?

Anyways, here are some highlights from the most stressful trip in the history of trips...

Amazing views

Think I ate pizza for pretty much every meal

Hadn't had a whisky sour(my favorite drink) in three months(there are 6000 american students in Florence)

Beautiful Cinque Terre

You can kinda make out the Pope coincidentily holding mass while we were touring the Vatican

At the Colosseum where of course we got stood up by our tour guide

Happened to be Rome's 2763rd birthday while were there

A motorized Cart, probably the most amusing part of the trip