updates...

hello hello everybody...

yes it has been awhile but can i just tell you how EXPENSE the internet cafes are in italy...ugh. so yes, thats why yesterday there were no captions added to the pictures and why today im typing like crazy to get the words out as quick as possible.

okay lets start.

lyon was goreous, absolutely gorgeous. we woke up at 4:30 in the morning on sunday to travel 12 hours to venice. ugh. the night before we had realized that the guy at the train station had booked us going to venice through geneve..which as you all know is in switzerland. switzerland is not one of our countries on the eurorail. PROBLEM. so we got to the train station earlier than we normally would to try to get some advice and see if we were okay...basically we didnt want to get kicked off the train in the middle of nowhere. so after we finally found a person that spoke english we were told the first part of our journey was not valid and we had to pay. ugh. so after it was all fixed we headed to switzerland. BEAUTIFUL. it was completely worth having to pay for that part of the ticket. the scenery and the swiss alps! now i know where i'm going next time theres a europe trip! so we finally arrived in venice at around 6 pm on sunday and the place was swarming with americans. SWARMING. we got our room and had fantastic calzones the size of our heads...delicious and then passed out.

when the water in the canals in venice is calm, it looks like glass. its so pretty. i believe we read that there were 117 bridges in venice. i believe it up. up and down, up and down all day. AND the streets, or shall we call them alleys, walkways...whatever yóu'd like to refer to them as....wow we got lost A LOT. but thats what it was all about, wandering through the alleys and canals of venice. we had some lemoncello (STRONG!) and yummy pasta....pizza....gelato....yes we are in italy...delicious food!

on wednesday afternoon we boarded a train for our 2 and a half hour journey to florence. anything is better than 12 hours! oh and to add, we've been able to travel first class on the trains, SO NICE. the seats are huge, free drinks and snacks. yes!

today we have been exploring florence. its warm and on the verge of rainy so we don't have to deal with the hot sun all day. the hostel we are staying it is adorable. MOM, our room is the same color as our old puerto rican dining room at the canterbury house! its awesome!
the guy who runs the hostel is adorable, he gave us his number in case we needed anything from him at all, "do not hesitate to call me at any hour". haha.
we woke up and went to have coffee and got haggled by some gypsies....they are everywhere!
went an explored piazza duomo then wandered over to galleria dell accademia where we saw the david. we only had to wait in line about 20 minutes which was really nice. the david was breathtaking, far better than i had expected and huge! no pictures, of course...sorry.

so we've got some more to see and more to research so im going to say bye for now... hope this update was good for you all!

tomorrow we are off to lucca for a few days, and in there we are going to pisa!

kisses to everyone :)