in fair Verona where we lay our scene

Let me start with Thursday night. Some friends of ours threw a "Red Party". It was mucho fun. Got to hang out with plenty of cool people. (I'm kinda rushing fyi). Then we hit up Twice for a bit, and then made our way to the secret bakery, where I got a chocolate croissant. I was so tired I just spent the night on Meg's couch. I wonder what my roommates must have thought when I walked in the door at 9am in heals and smudged makeup lol!!!!!!!

After much discussion about what to do last weekend, Meg and I went to Verona to meet Scott. Ok, let me start with getting there. First we had a stop over where we had to change trains in Bologna...BIG MISTAKE! Our train was late and only got to Bologna as our connection was leaving. So Meg and I had to wait like an hour and a half for the next train. When we got on it was very unclear if it was actually going to Verona, so we spent a hour freaking out that we were gonna end up god knows where. We did however make it to Verona.

The first night was pretty relaxed. We just kind of wandered around. Verona is so beautiful! Just so pretty and clean and i don't know...just beautiful! We enjoyed a nice long dinner before heading back to the hotel. Saturday was our tourist day. We saw both the tomb and house of Juliet. Obviously not real, just kinda commemorating the play. There was a modern art museum and we climbed 83 meters to the top of this tour to look out at see all of Verona. We hit up both the Roman Arena (which is now houses opera performances for which Verona is famous) and the Roman Teatro. We also hit up a few gorgeous churches.

After being major tourists on Saturday, Sunday we just took a bus to this town called Bardolino. It was beautiful and right on Lake Garda. We basically just walked along the water, had a nice looooong lunch and lay in the sun. I got a bad cold on this day, but I still loved the town. Now comes the bad part. The 24 hr. tourist info station is obviously only opened from 9-5 Monday-Thursday, so we didn't know that the bus schedule we were given was completely different. We had intended to take a 4:30 bus to be at the train station by 5:30 to catch a 6:15 train home...new schedule, we had to take a 6:30 bus and get on a train that we hoped would get us to Florence. We managed to get home, but I was just so exhausted, stressed and sick I basically collapsed in bed. So it was some stressful travelling, but still an enjoyable weekend. next post!