Half Way Mark.

The week after Sicily, October 17-23 mark our half way point in being here! It was a really fun week and weekend! Anna, my roommate/bestie, her family came to Florence to visit her! Which was fantastic for her, but nice for me too! I got to see her parents! Which was awesome because it was just really nice to see familiar faces! They were very kind and too me out to dinner with them one night! It was great just to be with people from Nashville! I miss my hometown! That weekend was just awesome! On Friday, a group of us went to the EuroChocolate Festival in Perugia, Italy! It was one of the coolest things I've done since being here! We spent the whole day tasting chocolate from around Europe. I had some really yummy hot chocolate. My new favorite chocolate is the Lindt Milk Chocolate Balls. Seriously, everything under the sun was covered in chocolate! I was in heaven! The other awesome thing about that day was the train ride back to Florence! The train we were on had four seat pods. So, in my pod it was Eunice, Bailey, Alexa and myself. We had a massive girl talk session! We pretty much planned out our weddings and talked about boys! It was the best train ride ever! I loved it! The next day we did a really fun thing at the train station. Lana, Brianna, Chelsey, Sam and myself got to the station and bought tickets for the next train that left the station; which was Pisa! We went to Pisa for the morning and took the really cheesy tourist pictures at the leaning tower and ate lunch! We also bought a bottle of Champagne at the supermarket. But that comes in later in the story. When we were done in Pisa we did the same thing at that train station. The next train leaving was to Lucca. Lucca is precious! There is a fantastic park! The leaves were changing and everything! Just delightful! We just sat and people watched. Then we got on a train heading to Florence. This is where the champagne comes in. Sam and I had bought it at the supermarket in Pisa and drank it the entire train ride from Lucca to Firenze. It was so much fun! It had always been on my bucket list to pop open a bottle and drink strait from it. Got to mark that off! And then that Sunday was just a chill day. I studied for Humanities and slept. It was fantastic.