i'll try to not make this 10 pages

ok, so I know I haven't posted in a few days, but I've been so busy, I barely have 15 minutes to sit at my computer. Firstly...I caved and now have internet in my apartment. It's pretty slow, but it works so whatever. Anyway, it was a pretty crazy weekend. On thursday after Meg and I did a little market shopping Kelly decided to cook dinner...that was probably the most delicious meal I've had. The night ran pretty late, we were basically talking for a few hours, and then Meg, Kelly and I walked Emily home, she lives a little far to walk back alone at night. Friday we did some MAJOR shopping. I got two pairs of fab shoes :) these hott boots that are so not me but still beautiful and only 20 euro and a cute pair of silver flats (yes scott...flats) which were only 10. I think shoes are gonna be my downfall here lol. Anyway we went to the Ponte Vecchio which is so beautiful, especially at night with all the lights. Meg went to Tiffany's to buy her Frank Ghery earrings, which look gorgeous. We decided to go out friday night...that itself was an experience. Some of Kelly's friends said that they were going to a cocktail lounge called Moyo's on Via de Benchi....well Moyo's was also listed in the Let's Go Europe book, but on Via de Banchi. Since both streets exist, we figured that the book must be right....how wrong we were. After wandering and realizing that Moyo's was in fact not on Via de Banchi (during this time Meg and Emily decided to sing throughout the streets and stop randomly to "admire") we decided to go with some of Kelly's other friends to this club Astris. It was a really nice place. Bar and tables upstairs and a dancefloor downstairs. My new boots, while fab, kinda hurt especially after all that walking so I sat at the table for most of the night, which was fine cuz not everyone was dancing. Anyway, Meg and I decided to head home around two I guess. As we were walking out of the club some woman (she must have been drunk) drove her car into this line of parked scooters. She just kinda got out of the car and shrugged lol.

We started out kinda early on saturday (like 11 lol) we did even more shopping, which I will never complain about. I ended up with a new leather jacket for 35 euros (real leather tho). That night we went to mass at the Duomo. It was in English which I guess means its kinda boring lol. It wasn't at the main alter and there wasn't any choir. I think I'll have to go to a Sunday mass in Italian if I want the real experience. Saturday night was pretty low key however. We were planning on going out, but as we were hanging out and talking it got pretty late and we all got tired so we figured to just call it a night.

On Sunday we had been planning to go to Pisa, but since none of us really wanted to get up early we decided to spend the day in Florence. That morning (afternoon really) we went to this vintage antique market. It was so nice just to wander around and look at all the cool stuff, it was all really beautiful. After the market we just hung around the Ponte Vecchio and enjoyed the sunlight. Eventually we made out way back to our neighborhood and were pretty starving. Even though it was only 5:30 we really wanted dinner, however, pretty much every place was closed until 7. That was the longest hour and a half of my life as we sat in Meg and Kelly's apartment just waiting for something to open. We ended up having a nice dinner at the restaurant next door, but did learn that Italian restaurants are not as willing to alter their dishes as American ones lol. The rest of the night was pretty crazy. I can only imagine what Betty must have thought when she got home from Interlochen and we were so crazed!

So that was my weekend. It was mainly comprised of wandering Florence and just learning as much about the city as I can. I will eventually post some pictures, but those really don't do everything I've seen justice. I really feel that to understand, people need to see everything for themselves.

Anyway, last night was the first meeting of the cinema club. We watched I Vitellioni, which was one of Federico Fellini's earlier films. It was really good, but the main character was such an asshole that he made Zach Braff in the Last Kiss look like an angel. Dispite his assholyness I still definitly recommend this movie.

Next weekend we're heading to Rome. I'm really excited for that, it should be an experience. Paris is all booked :) and hopefully more trips will get booked soon too. I guess that's all for now.

<3 Alli