Ok blog followers (the few of you who are still out there) sorry for the long delay in updates but our lives have been very crazy these past couple of days. I’m going to do the best I can at an overview of the past week of traveling and let you know what is coming up on the schedule for the last couple days here.
So June 18,
Started with a long and sad taxi ride to the Madrid airport; before I knew it Sarah and I were parting ways and it felt like my left hand was being chopped off and flown to London. Literally I had spent the past four weeks with this wonderful person and I didn’t know how hard it would be to say goodbye. I thought that my sadness would be relieved when I would see my beautiful sister and amazing friend Jessica at the AirEuropa gate waiting for me. However, I was wrong. Instead I spent the next hour traveling up and down the AirEuropa terminal, calling my mom, trying to find Wifi, and asking airport staff about a tall brown-headed girl with a short blond-headed girl. Turns out they were at AirPuerta which they thought was the same thing as AirEuropa just in Spanish (yep, this actually happened). Finally they made it to the right gate and we hugged and took photos and I gave Caroline all her bday presents!!!
We checked in and got ready to depart.
We arrived in Rome and took about 30 minutes to find our way out of the airport, where we met our driver. Thank you Mother for arranging this wonderful, old, hilarious, English-speaking Italian man to drive us to our hostel. It was such a blessing.
So get the hostel, carry our 50 pound luggage up one flight of stairs, and realize….we are at the wrong hostel. We don’t check in here until the 19th, so we basically say “ok, what are our options?” This hostel doesn’t have anymore rooms but a neighboring hostel does (and by neighboring I mean 10 blocks away). A thus starts the trek with multiple bags of 50 pound luggage down 10 blocks of cobblestone to the next hostel. After 35 minutes of sweating, running into objects, and yelling at each other we made it. We check in, get to our room, and realize we don’t have wifi. So we head out for dinner, so excited about our first Italian meal. We all get some form of pasta, which was delicious, and all get dessert (yeah we indulged ourselves the first night). We quickly pay and then run out because we aren’t sure about the tipping situation (I know terrible, but he wasn’t very good). Then we sit in the hostel lobby to get one free hour of wifi (I have a new found respect for free wifi). Then we head to back to the room to go to sleep which takes a few minutes because it is hot, really hot. But who cares we are in Italy and we know that tomorrow we are going to be visiting some of the greatest sites in all of the WORLD. Crazy.
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