The Italian Job: Part 1

Well hey there. I haven't posted in a while, but that's because I've been busy gearing up for a 2 week trip to Italy! Our program in Vichy allows us to have 2 weeks (2 WEEKS?!!!?? yes, i said 2) for Easter Break. Fantastic! So about a month or so ago my friends and I were trying to figure out just what the heck we were going to do for this break. Everyone else in the program seems to have had their trips planned since they got to France....maybe they knew something we didn't.....but anyways, I already knew I was going to Italy for Easter to see family. So my friend Julie and I (shout outs to Julie! even though you're sitting right beside me as I type this hahah!) decided that we would voyage through some Italian cities for our break.

First stop, Torino. It was lovely--I got to spend time with some family that I don't get to see very often and I got to have some home cooking. Gosh how I miss not having to cook. I'm so not taking mom's cooking for granted again. You can quote me. When Julie arrived in Torino, her and I visited the Egyptian Museum there--yes we said hey to the mummies. And then we were off to Venice, oh Venice....IT FREAKIN RAINED, the entire time. Only one day was it sunny, and then it was freezing that night. Did I mention we stayed at a campground in a cabin? No? Well I'm mentioning it now. It was a lovely campground, it really was, we liked it, but it's too cold to stay there at this time of year. But other then that Venice is awesome....and so is the gelato! Ya I'm going to be honest here and say that we pretty much had gelato every single day there. Right now we're in Florence. It's rainy too, but at least we're not at the sea where there's wind to freeze your land-lubbin' bones.....but I digress. Florence is pretty cool. I'm kinda irritated at the Uffizi though. Like frik bro, you know that you have terrible ques--you even tell people to book online to avoid said redonkulous ques, and yet you do nothing about it? Fer realsies?!?!? And it's Culture Week here in Italy and according to the Uffizi website tickets are free, but if you book online you pay for that. Mkay, cool beans.....where's my free ticket? I expect a free ticket when I'm told "free tickets", just saying.

Anywhos, I don't have pictures of Bella Italia to show to you guys at this moment as me, a.k.a. Dumb-dumb didn't bring the cord to connect her camera to her computer. So, mi scusi, you have to wait. Now, I'm not bragging, but I took some pretty rad photos. Don't be jealous though, some people are just gifted and some are not--me being the gifted one of course, in case you didn't get that.

One last point about Florence, at least for today, is the Shoe Museum. But not just any shoe museum, a Ferragamo shoe museum. "Holy Shitballs!"--yes I just heard you yell that. We just got back from there, sadly we were uninformed fools! We should have gone earlier and not an hour before closing time! There are soooooo many of his gorgeous shoes to oggle! There's documentaries and even a little movie theatre to watch some videos! I'm so sad that we had to leave....I want a Ferragamo!!!! :(

 http://www.museoferragamo.it/en/

Uhm, how fast can you guys ship these? Thanks Google Images!