Alright. we've made it to perhaps my favorite day of the whole trip. perhaps. it's way too damn hard to pick. but this is up there for suuure. Today we have free reign in the city or town or whatever you want to call it of Florence! we start it off with a walking tour that contiki hooks us up with, which, had i gotten more than like 2 hours of sleep the past god-knows-how-many nights, 
i probably would love even more, but as it is I'm a bit tired. But our guide (who knows eeeverything!) leads us around key spots in the city. I see a david replica and a bunch of other amazing statues and see the famous bridge where jewlery is eeeverywhere, but SO expensive as well as the beautiful duomo and all sorts of Italian goodness! Really i just LOVE the little cobblestone city.
i probably would love even more, but as it is I'm a bit tired. But our guide (who knows eeeverything!) leads us around key spots in the city. I see a david replica and a bunch of other amazing statues and see the famous bridge where jewlery is eeeverywhere, but SO expensive as well as the beautiful duomo and all sorts of Italian goodness! Really i just LOVE the little cobblestone city. And then Contiki arranged for us to see a leather demonstration so we head off for that. The Serbian girl that gives the talk is just about the cutest funniest thing ever. I want to take her home in my suitcase. She says that when guys on the street try to prove their leather is real by lighting a match or lighter under it they're retarded. Cuz if you hold anything far enough away it won't burn, and real leather should burn, since after all she's never seen a fire proof cow! hehe.
Anyway. from there I kinda leave the big group and head off for the petit palace gardens (or something like that) with desiree, christine, jen, and dan. and OMG do we have a fun freaking day. Basically we stroll through the gardens taking pictures of and with every statue we see. We laugh a lot and race our gigantic water bottles *that we MUST
carry all day in the blaaazing heat* down a hill and take more silly pictures down there till finally we're through with the gardens (and i'm SO tired i can't bear the idea of walking uphill again!) so we go for lunch.Now our lunch in florence isAMAZING. not only is the food good (even though we all basically filled up on our potato 
something or another in a pesto sauce) but we laughed SO hard just saying the silliest stuff. My fish entre had a spinal cord! we think it was from the lumbar region?! Don't know. we laugh. i cry. from laughing so HARD. and finally we leave that too and i do some last minute shopping for more leather and jewlery (since florence is also the place where i spent like half of my money for the whole trip). So after a great day we go back to the hotel to shower up for our group picture and dinner.
something or another in a pesto sauce) but we laughed SO hard just saying the silliest stuff. My fish entre had a spinal cord! we think it was from the lumbar region?! Don't know. we laugh. i cry. from laughing so HARD. and finally we leave that too and i do some last minute shopping for more leather and jewlery (since florence is also the place where i spent like half of my money for the whole trip). So after a great day we go back to the hotel to shower up for our group picture and dinner.The picture spot is beautiful! looking down into florence! and lots of people take lots of pictures while we're up there. 
Dinner is also amazing tonight! It's big italian wedding style with sooo much food and free wine all over! Dan meets his second love of the trip --> and italian opera singer who HATED playing the tamborine but was SO happy to sing! Also another Contiki bus is there and one of their passengers proposes to his girlfriend *SO CUTE!* and they dance to some songs, we dance to others (new york new york much? or the 9 minute macarena?) Also i believe this is where the Amish family photo originated. hehe. 
i spot nick and kinda smile and wink since we're now sober compared to the night before. and then as dinner wraps up we all get ready for yet another big night out in the Space Club!
i spot nick and kinda smile and wink since we're now sober compared to the night before. and then as dinner wraps up we all get ready for yet another big night out in the Space Club!Back at space i hang out with some of my favorites from my bus for a little bit in the VIP room! woo hoo! but then i sneak out to meet up with nick on the 
dance floor and we basically spend the rest of the night stalking the darkest corners of the club ;) and stay literally until it's clooosing down and end the night with a veeery interesting cab right, which, as always, i can't wait to recount to my lovely roomie liz!! :) :) who, as always again, has her own stories from the night!
dance floor and we basically spend the rest of the night stalking the darkest corners of the club ;) and stay literally until it's clooosing down and end the night with a veeery interesting cab right, which, as always, i can't wait to recount to my lovely roomie liz!! :) :) who, as always again, has her own stories from the night!
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