'Where's my Paulo?'

Omg where do I even start writing about such as amazing trip?


        Considering I'm my mother's daughter, I'll start with the food(in true bradbury fashion). So when you think of Italy, you imagine pizza, pasta, gelato, and nutella, and that is what I got! :) Three course lunches, 3 sometimes 4 course dinners, starting with pasta, a main dish(potatoes&meat) and finally finishing with dessert. Through most of our meals were eaten at our hotels, resulting in lots of night we left the table after only the pasta course so we wouldn't have to sit through instant mashed potatoes or smelly fish. Just on a side note; Italian's don't eat vegetables!!! The only time my body enjoyed a vegetable on that 11 day trip was the tomato's in the pasta sauce... Defiantly not my 8-10 recommended  a day. My proudest food moment of the trip had to be my rule of Gelato at least once a day! :). Another highlight was the eggplant pasta we had one day; you see I have a new found love for eggplant, and even made eggplant and tomato casserole for a couple of friends I had over for lunch after my trip to Italy. 


      As much as it felt like I spent my whole time in Italy eating, I was actually there to learn, to see the sights, and be a tourist...Which I did only to realize I don't actually like getting cattle called through thousands of other tourist, camera strapped around my neck and the least stylist but most comfy walking shoes, ruining my outfits. As much as I like to say I hate being a tourist, I was totally excited to see all the sights. Vatican city was beautiful, and even thought others wouldn't count it, I'm adding it to my Country Count list! :) 
The Colosseum was way cooler in person then it is in my textbooks back home, It was ginormous and you could tell it was super old!
 Thanks to the 16th Chapel and the Pantheon I have now seen the 1st and 2nd largest unsupported dome roofs in the world (<--yeah i'm kinda  geek!) which by the way is much more impressive then it sounds...


Ever since I went to Naomi's 8th birthday and we went and saw 'Lizzie McGuire The Movie', I have been obsessed with everywhere they go, so well I was packing for Italy I went on iTunes(thanks parents for all the gift cards) and rented the Lizzie McGuire movie so I would be all fresh on the sights of Rome.
Basically the point of all that background knowledge is that  1. When I saw the Trevi Fountain I almost peed my paints in excitement. 2. I sat in front of the fountain, eating my gelato and looking cute hopeing to find my Paulo, unfortunaely I didn't find him this time. But that just gives me another reason to go back! :) 3. Well I was looking for my Paulo, some Mexican girls who were on the trip with me started singing 'What dreams are made of' from the movie which just made things a billion times cooler.


The 11 days of this trip were so jammed packed I barely had time to sleep, and because of that, they all went by so fast that everything we did kinda of just got all jumbled together so I think the easiest way to tell ya'll what we did each day.


Day 1- Bus ride through Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland all the way to Rome, Italy. 24 hours with a bus full of grino(a)'s! :)
Day 2- Vactican City, by day, relaxation and sleep by night.
Day 3- Colosseum & walking tour of Rome by day, adventure with Italian teenagers we met in the street by night.
Day 4- Ancient port of Ostie and Abbay de Monte Cassino.
Day 5- Lemon Cello shopping in Sorrento, tour along the Amalfitain coast.
Day 6- Most Beautiful Boat tour ever around the island of Capri, touring & lunch in Capri and Anacapri
Day 7- Soaking wet rainny tour of Pompeii (also way cooler then what you learn in the textbook) Random Fact; Pompeii had a brothel even before it was covered by the Volcano  :)
Day 8- Another super cassy awesome for our photos umbrella nedded day, well visiting Pise.
Day 9- Easter sunday; Boat ride to the island of Murano a glass blowing tour/showing and visiting the island of Burano
Day 10- Venice!!! :), btw, it reminded nothing like Bruges to me, even though everyone says Bruges is the little Venice...
Day 11- Bus ride all the way back to Belgium. 


There is just something about it that beats anything else. Traveling with students is an amazing thing, especially when half of them are latino(a)'s (always ready to party& always singing). 


Italy 2012 is an unforgettable trip, forever and always! <3