WE ARE ALIVE!!!!

we are here, we are alive and we are loving it...

this keyboard is weird at the hostel, so i apologize for lack of caps

i will write more tomorrow when we get to florence, there is no wireless internet here, so i have to use theirs at the hostel and it is expensive...so i will give you a one sentence rundown of all the major events...this has been a truly MESSED UP, MEMORABLE, and amazing trip so far!!!

I will post pictures and give the story details tomorrow...but, here is the outline...

ON THE PLANE RIDES HERE:
- guy infront of use telling us to 'give him a fucking break because we have been talking for four hours straight'
- taxing for 35 minutes between landing in heathrow and pulling into the gate
- free grey goose vodka samples at the heathrow airport :)
- getting told no more boozie on the second flight because were in the exit row and they needed us ready incase of an accident, and us explaining that we would be way more effective with another gin and tonic!

ONCE WE ARE HERE
- THEY LOST MY F$%%$&ING luggage!!!!! not some of it, every bag I had....BJ and Pat were fine, but mine did not make the transfer to Rome from London.....
- First Rome dinner.....free dessert, free bottle of champagne, free appetizers
- saw, colloseum, ancient ruins, vatican, spanish steps, tomb after tomb after tomb
- Pat put us on the wrong train from the airport to Rome and we ended up in a ghetto with the only random local named fredrico who took us into a sketchy place, but got us on to a bus that took us near our hostel
- bj stayed in the second night, pat and i did a bar crawl that is put on by this english student group....amazing night....pat blacked out, fell head over ass on the street, was relieving himself on the street corner when the italian police drove by and i had to talk with them and explain what was happening, then later avoiding another police car while pat took a nose dive into the sidewalk right in front of them ... they are not fans of public drunkeness
- tonights dinner was only okay, pat ordered a peperoni pizza and did not realize that a double p meant meat the single p means vegtable peppers..
- the money situation is going ..um mmm, okay... note to dad, keep an eye on your email!!
- tonight, we are still deciding, but likely party time....when in rome...
- we got free samples at a liquor store!! needless to say, we did not need anything after some early morning grappa
- the wine is cheap and awesome, 7 euro for a liter!!
- food is even better...

I WILL fill in these gaps with a full long story in the next day or so.

if you look at your intinerary you will see that tomorrow we head to florence!!! train at 1130, even if we party it up we should still make it....i am not driving the thing.

side note: bj crashed out last night, staying in and reading fight club....pat crashed out today, sleeping in until 3pm....lets see if I can keep up the current pace.....I may just fall dead in cinque terre!!!

PLEASE, if anyone is still considering swinging out and seeing us, please do! I know a couple of my friends who have the free time and the means to do it.......there is NO FREAKING reason to not. You know who you are...
You know you want some linguine alfredo with some gelato and lemoncello!!!

we miss you all.... (you know who you are) :)

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