European Vacation

Ok today involves us driving from Florence to Nice, as the title of the post suggests. I’m going to skip to the part where we stop in Pisa to see the leaning tower and take some obligatory photos of us pretending to hold it up. I don’t think anything interesting happened before that anyways. Pisa was only a 45 minutes stop because all they have is the leaning tower and all the leaning tower has is people pretending to hold it up. Here is how it went: “Come stand by me, children. We will take a beautiful picture together.” said the tower. “Thanks tower we will do that. But I see how you are looking at the girls and I don’t appreciate it. Now I shall knock you down with my super punch!” said Patrick. “Nooooo! I’ll save you tower! I’ve always loved you!” said Lisa. “You guys are retarded. Please get off my property.” said the tower. And the tower was right. The End. Before we left I ate what will probably be my last good panini of the trip. I also had one of my last good espressos of t...

Florence here we come! If I remember correctly, Florence is about four hours from Rome. But if you haven’t noticed, I don’t remember correctly. We stopped at an overlook when we got close to Florence in order to take our official Contiki group photo. They chose a nice backdrop (the city of Florence) and it was taken by a professional which means it will be high quality, everyone will be in it, and they can charge us for it. I took a few pictures at the stop because the view was nice. Poor statue never stood a chance. When we got into Florence we were taken to a leather shop where they told us about the leather-making process and the best way to determine if something is real leather or fake leather. Florence is basically known for their leather. Ask me the leather trick some day and I’ll tell you. We were then directed into their jewelry shop to learn about how to spend money on jewelry. Woman: “Ladies, we have jewelry!” Ladies: “OH MY GOD JEWELRY!” Or something like that. ...