Italy!!!

I'm finally off to Italy...or so I thought.   I took the hour long bus ride to the airport. I had gotten there around 4 and my flight wasn't until 7 so I was thinking I had heaps of time. 

I was looking for the flight number and where to check in and junk, I asked a lady...she looked at my ticket and was like "your flight already left"....*panic* "what are you talking about?? It's in three hours??"...she was like "uhhh  no..it was at 7 AM"  *retardation* ....I was thinking no way is this possible I knew it was in the evening, I said "no it wasn't, it couldn't of been I remember booking a later flight" by know she rolled her eyes and shrugged at me soo I walked off to the ticket desk to see what they could do for me...I felt sooo dumb. It was all because they use stupid military time. Dumb forgein countries! Lol

So now I was started to worry cause what am I gonna do to get to Italy?? Tat is waiting for me and there's no way of getting a hold of her?? It's a dumb airline so they won't be any good?  So I did what the ony logical thing was todo......call my mommy!! 

Before I called I went to the ticket desk and found out they could do absolutely nothing for be besides book me a new flight for like £400 ($650). HA HA HA yea right!  So I called mom and she was actually in Canada! Lol. Sooo she looked up some flight and junk and I was looking up something's.   and we decided that we just needed to buy a new flight it was gonna coast about £250 which wasn't horrible but still annoying.  So then her card wouldn't work.... Then she tried and her card wouldn't work....then she called the bank and it still wouldn't work. Sooo then I thought I just go pay in cash at the desk.  I got there and waited in like about 15 min and then when I was second from the front they were all were closed now we open at 5 am blah blah ......omg.  I was sooo annoyed. 

Soo then I decided I might as well just camp out at the airport...by this time it was around 10ish and it would be an hour back to london and then I would have to get up at 3 and come back an hour for it to be open at 5 and the earliest flight was at 7am.   Soo I got some snacks and found a corner and made camp! 

After a little while a nice Italian girl came by and was my friend for the night! Lol. She let me use her phone I could call Tat soo she would know I wasn't coming that night...even though I was supposed to be there then. Soo it was an interesting night...there was surprising soo many people sleeping in all corners of the airport. We talked to hippies...and crazy Italians....a really crazy British guy that was trying to talk to the Italian people and they were ignoring him so they started obviously talking about him and then started mocking them. It was sooo funny! 

Where I slept for the night! 

So come morning I was the first  one in line and asked to buy with cash my ticket.....ohhhhh it had jumped to like £600.... This is ridiculous!! Soo I stormed off and had to pay and go use a computer at the airport and found a flight for Sat evening! So this point it was early early Friday morning. So I waitied til it was reasonable time and called Aunty margret back up... She felt soo bad for me and was like yes yes come back!! So I went back and she had breakfast waiting for me and she had to go somewhen so I just took a nap...since I barely got any sleep the night before.  Later I figured I might as well wonder around London some more since I was there! 

   

I was almost tempted to go to another musical show but of decided not to. So I came home and chilled with Aunty Margaret lol 

The next morning I didn't have to be at the airport until 3 soo I just walked down the street of where I was staying and there was heaps of markets! 

I ran into some Witnos from the Portuguese group! That was cool! 

Then I headed to the airport and I checked in and everything was good!  

Although when it was time to board the flight the lady was super rude and I kinda had to yell at her in front of everyone for her to let me through. She said my bad was way to big to be a carry on and I assured her it wasn't ...she still didn't believe me..so then she said it looked way to heavy...and even though it was soo heavy I was like not really and lifted it quickly with one hand...and she was just starring at me like what should I do..so I said...I've carried it on before its not heavy why is this a big deal??? And then she said...just go!! And was all annoyed. 

I was soo relieved to be on the plane...two days late but none the less on my way to Italy! 

About an hour into the flight an announcement is being made that we are having an emergency landing!!  Excuse me????  Really? Really?? Can anything else go wrong?   Sooo we end up landing in Florence!  And were gonna have to wait 3+ hours....forget that!   I knew hat Florence wasn't far from Bologna  and it actually was later then my flight was supposed it get in and I've had no contact with Tat since yesterday soo she's probably wondering where I am. Sooo I leave the airport and take a taxi to the train station and get a train to Bologna....it's dark and I really have no idea where I'm going and everyone on the night shift doesn't barely speak English!!! Ahhh.   So I do get on the train and its only a half an hour journey. Soo once I get to Bologna there's barely I anyone around and it's about 10ish sooo thank goodness I made Tat give me the address to where we are staying. Soo I got a taxi and told him the address... He spoke NO English .....awkward...I was sooo hoping he would bring me to the right place!!  So were driving and driving for a bit and then we turn down this dodgy road....and then another and I'm thinking oh gosh I'm gonna be murdered!! Lol 

All the sudden I hear someone yell..."Lyndsey!!"   It's Tat.  It was like so thing in the movies we were both sooo relieved to see each other and that I wasn't dead lol but it was soo funny as well. 

So now that I was there we could talk and I could tell them about my traumatic time lol and how awkward the boy Tat was staying with was but how she didn't like him at all ;) ;) lol

The girl we were staying with was named Vanessa and she lived in a little apartment that was boiling hot all the time hahahah 

Anyway the next day was Sunday and Vanessa had to work soo me and Tat walked along the long toad and had to catch the bus to get to  meeting. When we got there...there was quite a few people who remembered her from last year so that was fun.  Also to our surprise there was heaps of young girls. American girls...how weird!  They are all there helping out and pioneering. It was fun cause I'm American and it was like we were best friends cause we from the same country.  One of the girls was actually leaving so there was a little teeny going away dinner that night that we got invited to. 

The people's house where it was at was actually Australian and they are super nice...and it was fun...we all got along really well. Doing silly girl things. There was a couple guys but they were kinda watching us being dumb! It was soo cool cause they said they were going to a David Guetta concert on Friday and that they had two extra tickets, and asked if we wanted to go cause they been looking for fun people to come with them!! Booya 

This is down town Bologna at night...it's cool on the weekends...Friday night to Monday morning the roads are shut off and there is no traffic aloud soo everyone kinda all wanders in the streets.

Monday morning we were up and headed to Verona!! 

Tat had never been there and obviously neither have I soo we weren't sure where to go, thank goodness she can speak Italian to an extent hahah

When we found the town center this big display was the first thing we saw...right in front of the mini colosseum! 

We went waking and walked through all the ritzy shops and different squares and around different markets. 

Finally we found Juliet's house and her wall of love and balcony and all that good stuff!! 

Then we continued to walk around the city...which was beautiful. Right on the water was a huge ol palace on the hill! 

There was a few bridges across the river but this one was the biggest and oldest.

One of Tats friends had said we needed to find the bridge and take a picture for her cause her and her husband had a special moment on that bridge....what does that mean...that's weird sooo I told her we needed to create a awkward special moment on the bridge so she could send the pic back to her friend! Lol 

This is our special moment! Lol

That night when we got home we just chilled and played cards and talked about random junk. But around midnight the neighbor was totally drunk and he all put music on from his car and was all jamming out witch was fine by us cause it was good music and we were still awake and everything. 

I kept looking out with window spying on the neighbor...you seeing what he's doing and what's going on...all the sudden we see the "other" neighbor...this really chubby old lady that always is hanging around...she's out there in the middle of the night dancing and folding her laundry!! It was soooo funny! 

The next day was Venice! I was super excited about going here.

So thank goodness Tat had been before because I would have had no clue of where to start. When you come out of the station this is what you see..

Just a big ol river..water..canal thingy.That you have to cross over to get to any part of the city. 

Everywhere you turn or look its soo picturesque. You have the old buildings and the flowers and the bridges and the water. It's very cool.  

This picture is of us on the opposite side of the water and that's the station behind us so you can see it  literally is water right when you step out.

Now along with lots and lots of water, there is about a gazillion streets..so you go down one and then it dead ends and then you turn and that one dead ends soo the whole town is like a maze. And since there's no cars aloud its very very narrow.

 See I can touch both sides! 

 

It's also crazy because your walking down these lil streets and BAM!! you walk into a square and there is massive old building.

 Mmmmmm....gelato!

Once you get through most the city and to this massive square you come up to more water...but this is more of a bay or open water. This is where all the movies have there boat chases lol. It's also where most of the gondolas leave from. 

There wasn't a whole lot to see in Venice but it was just sooo cool..with all the boats and water.

I like this pic cause its just right down town but in the one picture you can see 4 bridges. 

 Being rowdy in a quiet neighborhood!! Lol

It was soo funny on our way out of Venice Tat wanted some pizza and so we stopped at this one lil place and the guy was being all super happy and goofy and then I looked off to the side of the hot case where the pizza was and ther was a big huge jar of stuff...I asked what it was cause I thought it might be some weird seasoning .....wrong it was a missive tub of weed!!! Lol.  I told him that's why he's soo happy!!  And he agreed! :). 

 Once we got home it was a bit later but we were hungry so we had some late night pasta....we thought it was fitting being in Italy and all!! 

So that was all the excitement for the first have of our Italy trip lots more silliness to come.

Ciaó

<3 lynds