Merry Christmas from Rome

This was my first year, EVER, away from home on the holidays. I definitely thought it would have been much harder and I would have been a lot sadder than I was, but Silvia and her family graciously took me in for the Holidays and kept me distracted from feeling sad. It was the true test of my italian skills and I think I passed. It was so fun meeting all the family and cousins and grandparents brothers and oh man.. LOTS of family, but that's what the Holidays are all about. And this year, I was just with my Italian family instead of my normal one :) but I did call them on Christmas eve and Christmas day. I can't report on my presents yet, because well THEY AREN'T HERE. what a sham huh? no presents on Christmas.. well i got 4; boots from Alessandra and family, gloves from Silvia, incense (or something, im not really sure) from Silvia's aunt (who wants me to stay here and babysit her ADORABLE daughter.. too bad i already have a job! lol) a shirt from Silvia's parents, and a sweatshirt from Alessandra's parents. so i guess thats 5 gifts.. lol well i guess i can report on them, BUT more to come from home and from justin! Today (the 26th) is still a Holiday in Italy and everything is STILL closed. it's kind of crazy that there's 3 days in a row where everything is closed.. I can't remember what Holiday it is, but it is one. I promise. Here are some pictures from the eventful Christmas Eve/Christmas Day.

Yes, I sat at the kids table on Christmas eve and ate the kids table food because, really.. who likes FISH!? blech. Oh and because Livia (the cute little girl) wanted me to :)

There's always at least one trip to the ER on a holiday. This year, it was poor Guido. He was out riding his bike while it was raining and lost control. his leg is GNARLY looking all scrapped and his shoulder just popped out of place so he looks like a mummy until he's not sore anymore, then he can take his contraption off. HA HA.. poor guy, i had to cut his food and everything..

Silvia and I Christmas Morning, Off to get a YUMMY YUMMY croissant for breakfast at the one place that was open. I guess some rich rich mean guy owns it and only cares about money. I felt bad for the people working on Christmas morning, but they had cheery smiles and delicious food!

The Vatican and it's tree. My camera HATES me at night when I try to take pictures of lights. sorry, it doesn't do it justice.

The life size nativity in the Vatican, it was so realistic and amazing. Even the back looked cool and realistic.

All in all a great Christmas and a new experience, but i can't wait to spend next Christmas with my family :) love you all, miss you all (if you want more pictures, go look at my facebook)

Florence say what??

well ITS SNOWING!! and it has been for over and hour! SAY WHATT. the last time it snowed was like 5 years ago and for like half an hour. but this time ITS SNOWWWING AND STICKING. oh florence in beautiful in the snow :) heres my pictures just outside my house. i couldnt help but run out to playyyyy. ♥

oh today was amazing and i didn't even get the letter i've been waiting for BUT i did get SNOW, all the classes i wanted this semester, don't need ANY textbooks!, decided i really want to be a second grade teacher, decided to run a marathon with Larissa in September (a way cool one at that), played with Dario and Lisa, the guy i wanted to win SYTYCD won!, and told the family here that i wanted to go home in April. USA here i come in 4 months.

AH. :) wonderful day that makes me love Justin even more. love those warm fuzzies inside.

goodnight all love you and miss you.

My Travels in the last month

So yes, i know im WAY behind in posting about my adventures i've been just posting without pictures because im too lazy to get my camera, BUT i finally did and now here comes the posting of my adventures :)

SO i made a friend named Liz. She's a lot older than me (hahaha) but i wouldn't think she was, i was super surprised when i figured out her real age! but there aren't very many people to hang out with my age and Liz and I have fun together so who cares, age is just a number right? Well she is the planner of the trips and calls me and says we should go here this day and the bus leaves at this time. I am always late! and we almost always just barely catch the bus or miss it. bahaha.. the bus to get to the station is always late and then its cold walking so i walk slow, its really not my fault. but i think next time she'll tell me an earlier time even if its not so we don't miss our bus :)

ANYWAYS. we went to Lucca like a month ago, its a little town just outside of Florence like an hour by bus and its BEAUTIFUL. it has the ancient walls around it that protect the city and everyone walks on them and rides their bikes and what not. Liz and I rented bikes and went around them, it was so much fun and the perfect time to go to Lucca because all the leaves were falling :) It was my favorite city I've ever been to. There also was A WAY COOL food market thing where you can try and sample everything from bread to jam to honey from sunflowers to some weird plant thing and meats. it was so yummy :) and fun and it was good to be out of the cold for just a bit even though we had a rather warm november (or so they say) because now its FREEZING. like literally, it snowed and it doesnt snow in tuscany! boo lol.

(this hardly does it justice, i just picked one but we took hundreds of pictures lol)

AND THEN. this past weekend we went to San Gimignano it was COLLLLLLLLD and almost totally empty but way pretty as well. I bought the cutest italian nativity. I have a new goal to get a nativity from every country justin or i visit and then we can have wayy cool nativities. :) i think its a good idea. We walked to the top of a tower and i was TERRIFIED because heights aren't my favorite thing in the world right now and it was just scary!.. and the ladder up there was a bit rickety soo yup. then we ate outside even though there was an inside spot to eat lol so we were cold and i was like ice (thanks mom for the always being cold gene!) and so we got hot chocolate and looked at the lights and went home. it was a fun trip. i love these little 10 euro trips but i always buy something and it becomes a more expensive trip! ha ha.. oh well. im in italy so i can spend every penny i make, until i have to buy a plane ticket home.. ha ha

update on Justin: he's doing good, and leaves the MTC for good on Tuesday! it's flown by fast and some days im more grateful for it than others and some days i hate it more than others. me and the mission have a love hate relationship. :) oh and waiter haters, GO AWAY. i wont post your comments ha ha :) and he is doing his best to put his focus on his mission but the MTC is never fun so i think he'll be much better once he gets out there. OH and someone stole his camera :( sad day. all of his pictures from the first 8 weeks of his mission are gone except the two i got. BOO. hopefully he gets a new one soon. but other than that he loves it, and got a less active member to commit to coming to church just by being nice and telling jokes and inviting him. SO moral of the story. If you know a less active member, give them a call tell them you miss them or take them some cookies or coco and visit them. Sometimes all they want is to know someone cares. I challenge you to that this Christmas season. Put a little extra effort into your missionary work because I know I am. :)

love you all and miss you!!

oh p.s. TOTALLY excited that so many people read my blog, like really? i never knew people read it until i got that cool tracker thing. so thanks for caring, it makes my day when i see a new visit! :)

SO not my last 24 hours..

so realllly i have a million things i "should" could be doing other than sitting on my computer but i can't seem to find the motivation in myself because today all i can seem to do is; watch the finale's of a few shows, search insanely for this girl, and read this new mormon bachelor pad blog, and eat junk food while feeling sorry for myself today.

SO im going to post about my oh so eventful last twenty-four hours even though i just want to sleep it off (and the next 6 as well) and should be studying for institute but can't find the motivation because my mind won't be focused enough to translate it during class (because im trying to figure out who this *person is with the little clues i have) so i'll just read the chapters we were assigned during class. I don't really want to go to institute because they changed it to 8:30 p.m. thats LATE. i leave for it at 8 get there class gets out at 9:30 and if im lucky i can catch the 9:40 ish bus and be home by 10 but usually wont be home until 10:30 which in my opinion is not appropriate for institute, i would rather a few people be a little bit late than me have to travel by myself that late at night, so i've been avoiding it the last few weeks but then a girl at district conference asked if i was going this week and i said maybe and she said well let me know if you do because then i will, and so i felt that guilty twinge and said i'll be there. dang guilt making me go out late at night and when i reallly dont want to.

anyways last 24 hours.

7 pm- just emailed justin for a little getting him to calm down from the letter i sent him that somehow was read as a dear john, but totalllllly wasn't. it was one of those "buck up" focus less on me letters like a supportive missionary girl should be you know?.. then i fed the kids dinner

7:30 fighting with dario because "he's not hungry" and wants chocolate. boo.

8:00 finally the kids are in pj's just relaxing watching tv but BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS. and still want chocolate. joy.

8:15 give them one piece if they promise to just sit on the couch and relax. they did so i checked my email...

8:20 PISSSSED off. like the maddest i've ever been in my life (well maybe the second maddest but only two people know about the first) and i am pretty hard to make mad let alone piss off. the reason: in short, *someone decided to email Justin about false stuff about me that made me look really bad and like a liar. great. justin would be back on at 9 to email again..

8:40 stressed doing the dishes because it relaxes me but not last night... i cut my thumb

8:55 put the kids to bed even though its 5 minutes early so i can be ready to calm justin down, once again.

9:00 still putting the kids to bed, justin emailed me 3 times, are you there? i need to talk to you about this

9:03 we "talk" (as in email) about it all and calm him down and make him not want to come home anymore because of some person that decided to meddle in our relationship for no good reason. i think i get that enough from *blank(s).

9:10 A. comes home, sees my face and is seriously worried. Everything okay with the kids? yes of course it all went great they may still be tossing and turning in bed. She goes in to kiss them and back out to me, and says need to talk? I LET IT ALL OUT. so much that she couldn't understand me. still shaking with anger (maybe i have never been that mad in my life)

10:00 he's calm and going to stay on his mission and is sorry for believing this *other person over me and for thinking i would really be like that but of course i understand because i sure missionaries are a little worried about their girl getting "stolen" while on their mission (although i did just write him the letter to focus less on me and more on his mission (which seee above) was taken as a dear john in some way so i get that he was a little freaked by both in the same day)

10:01 start SEARCHING for this *person because i know where she got her information to twist and turn my words into sounding bad. and have recruited my new best friend who i have never met in person (ha ha she's AMAZING.)

11 STILL looking

12 still looking

12:01 decide its probably time to go to bed. try to sleep, NOT POSSIBLE. and so i read this mormon bachelor pad blog and now im addicted and have to read to the beginning of this story which will take a lonnng time.

1 still awake, still mad as ever

1:30 set my alarm in the morning hoping i wake up to it

2 still awake

sometime between 2-3 i fell asleep i think

7 am rolls around get the kids ready but really wishing i could sleep it all off until wednesday

7:15 realize i have 3 bug bites on my left hand aren't they supposed to DIE in the cold. dang mosquitos.

8:15 kids out the door with A as she turns and says, did you find that *person yet because i want to know! nope not yet. i think this *person has gone into hiding which is a good idea for this *person because im not very nice when im mad

the rest of the day, eat junk food, watch the finale's, read this new blog, and cry (alot.. boo) because my email day was RUINED over this dang ignant (the reason i use that word is because as i reread justin and i's email i realized i used that word! uhh i think i was WAYYY madder than i let on, because i didnt know ignant was in my vocabulary) *person

2 i should probably eat lunch. burn my pinky finger...

4 run out to get a mail key made so i can stalk the mailbox for my letters instead of stalking A to come up with the mail after work

5 get the kids and A ready to leave for the weekend

5:15 home alone until sunday night, sweet silence. LOVE IT.

5:15-7 reading that dang blog, STILL. its my new addiction, crap.

7 decided to write this post and feel sorry for myself and get that anger out that has been bubbling before i go to put my happy face on for institute.

oh the life of a nanny in florence who is waiting for her missionary (with a left hand that has 3 bug bites (pointer finger, inside palm, and outside palm) a cut on the thumb and a burned pinky). but at the end of the day live and learn and maybe someone will learn to NOT meddle in others life especially long distance things and unable to talk it out in person or on the phone.. and now that i look back its funny that someone felt so threatened by me to feel the need to "tattle" fake things on me. so this was a learning experience for me that i would have much rathered (uhh is that a word??) not to have but glad it happened to me instead of some other girls that i care about and would have been devastated by it. and this is my blog of sharing my experiences bad or good. not my last 24 hours.

and i know i said i would have pictures but im lame and too lazy to upload them. maybe tomorrow since i dont have to do ANYTHING :)

* i do try to not leak too much information because i dont have a private blog and some people might be embarrassed

you know, it will be okay ♥

*disclaimer; my English kind of sucks right now, so grammar, spelling (spell check helps ALOT), sentence structure, and words may not always make sense :)

SO there has been a lot of life changing things going on all around me lately as you all know.. and now life isn't changing. Every "big" step is over and started. It's weird to have life standing still now, well not standing still but living in the same house, with the same kids (& parents), understanding the language well, waiting "patiently" for emails and letters once a week.. etc.

And well know as I look back on everything that I complained and cried over and wanted to give up, I'm grateful I didn't. I'm grateful for the support of Justin, My parents, and my friends. Without them and their tough love at times I would not be where I am today or who I am today.

So here are a few things I am grateful for;

1. I am grateful for Justin and for the sacrifice he is making for our future family and for the life experiences we will both have while he is gone and for the growth that will happen. I am grateful that Justin and I were engaged for so long and dated for so long and are still dating today, but I'm grateful that we made the decision together for him to serve a mission. I think that us being engaged was the reason I was able to let him go and to feel so good about him leaving on a mission because I knew/still know how much love we have for each other and if are were ready and willing to put that love into an ETERNAL marriage than we are able to suck it up for two years and do the Lord's work. Yes it is hard for him to be out there and I still cry sometimes and it is lonely but, the things that have come from this have all been positive. I have yet to see a negative thing come from him serving a mission. I miss him, but that makes the heart grow fonder, it makes our love stronger and specialer (YES i know its not a word, i dont remember all my english). He is growing everyday as am I and we are such stronger people than we were 6 months ago. I still have 98 weeks or 22 1/2 months or 685 days until he comes home, but for each week, I am going to write down a reason I am grateful for his mission and save a euro(or a dollar) and then at the end of his mission I am going to buy a TON(aka 104) of red balloons and let them go with each reason I am grateful we made this choice. I'm sure that it's bad for the environment and all but, if i didn't buy them all in one huge group then some little kid will buy them eventually and they will end up there anyways :)

2. I am grateful that I decided to wait for Justin. He is my boyfriend, and sorry but I'm not going anywhere. I know that some of you totally disagree with that but sorry this is my life and my decision and what I feel good about. I will go on friend dates but it will be clear to that guy that I'm not interested in anything serious or more than a friendship. SO thanks for your opinions but life would be much easier for me, if you kept your negativity to yourself. :) and if you have anything positive or talks or anything that you think would help, feel free to send them this way because I'm always looking for something new and wonderful. I have learned so much about service since he has left. I have always done my fair share of service and never expected anything in return but as normal, something little always came you know? Well, since Justin has left, I write the weekly email, weekly letter, monthly (or more) large envelope or package, search for quotes and talks, and always try to find something spiritual to share with him. AND there is no way in heck, I could ever expect or want the same thing from him because I am serving the Lord by supporting him in his service for the Lord. Sure, I get a weekly email and letters every once in a while and they are amazing but I do feel as if I am serving him and the Lord in all that I do. And I'm grateful that I'm waiting because I take a heck of a lot more pictures than I used to so I have something to send in his monthly (or more) packages (or envelopes). Sure I don't share them with everyone because they are for sure not the most flattering pictures of me, but I know that he loves them and appreciates me even in my not so flattering pictures.

3. I am grateful for what I have experienced in Italy. Even though sometimes it's super hard it makes me realize how great I really have it at home and how much I do have at home even though it never occurred to me that way. I am grateful that I live in a home where the spirit is and can reside. I have never lived anywhere that hasn't been lds based and it's very weird and different but it's an experience that I wouldn't give up for the world because it has made me grateful and not take living in that kind of a house for granted. And makes it that much more important to me to have a house that the Spirit can always reside. I am grateful that I have learned how to be alone. I have never spent much time on my own and traveling on my own and doing things for the first time on my own, and since I've left, I am often on my own and doing all these things by myself and learning that I'm a strong wonderful smart daughter of my Heavenly Father and that I am never truly alone because Heavenly Father is always there. And now that I've learned to be alone, it makes traveling with others just that much more fun :)

4.I am grateful for my mommy, for she truly is my best friend in the whole wide world. She is such an example to me. She is my hero, yes i love my family all to bits and am grateful for them as well, but I am more grateful for my mommy. She puts up with ALL of my crap and talks to me every day and whenever i need it, even in the middle of the night. She listens to me cry, laugh, or just talk to talk. She is an amazing woman and has amazing advice. Although sometimes I don't like her advice or I know what she will say, it is still always nice to have someone to give me their opinion and give me a different way to look at things. She has gone through so much in the last 3 years and has come out on top and has shown me that life will be okay and that even when things SUCK and are SUPPPPER HARD, you can still turn to the Lord and your family and they will always be there for you, even when your friends aren't. I love her with all my heart and miss her TONS.

5. I am grateful for the group waiting for my missionary on facebook. yes it sounds lame but seriously, its been the BIGGEST help for me because any time of the day i can share my ups and downs of my experience and read about other girls, some who are similar to me and others very different. And see the success stories of those with missionaries who are home or coming home very soon. It's such a great group of girls who are so spiritually in tune and loving and helpful and always there for me. I have made some AMAZING friends through that group, and a few i would even consider my best friends.

6. I am grateful for me. Selfish? yes a bit. But seriously, I love who I am and I'm proud of who I am and who I've become and who I'm becoming. I know I have my faults but I'm working on them. I couldn't imagine being someone else and going through everything I am and having all of these experiences as someone who isn't grateful or someone who hasn't been raised in the gospel.

So all in all this has been the hardest, most rewarding 6 months of my life and I know it's not over yet, but it could be any day and there's nothing wrong for expressing a little gratitude :) just my thoughts for the week that I wanted to share. love you all, and I promise I'll be better at keeping this updated (and Justin's blog too ha ha) and the next post will have pictures.

Halloween

In Italy Halloween is slowly becoming a new tradition for the children. It's not a big thing yet, but in a few years I bet it will be HUGE.

SO My cute little kids got dressed up as a witch and as Zorro (dario took off before i could get a picture) and went to a friend party at the gardens and then that night went into the city center where they closed off a street and trick or treated the store fronts. Apparently not all the store owners understand Halloween so they got, candy, crackers, handfuls of pistachios, and money. But they were excited!! I went to a Halloween party at the church that the missionaries put on for the ward but majority of the people there were the missionaries

ha ha ha but it was fun, we played do you love your neighbor, musical chairs,

bobbed for apples ( i got mine in 3 seconds!!)

Most of the Elders (and Sister Gadd) shoved their whole head to the bottom to pin down the apple! It was a huge wet mess! ha ha ha

and the donut eating game (which were more like scones that elder Middleton made)

All in all a successful Halloween, and we are making pumpkin seeds tonight! yummmm

My Kiddos

These are my kiddos Lisa (7) Dario (4) who will be 5 on November 5th (i think). He wakes up upset every morning that it's not his birthday and cries and complains that its not today. It gets a little old but I guess thats a 4 year old waiting for their birthday!! It's been quiet an adventure getting to know them. They are very au pair savy because they've had them since infancy so they are used to getting away with everything but not with me, i lay down the law. lol but my mommy sent presents and they've been nicer since then. It looks like they are going to need bribes for the next little while :)

The Past Two Weeks

I have been in florence now for two weeks! wonderful huh? well i almost came home before i gave this place a chance but I'm glad i stayed, maybe not for super long but at least to meet everyone and have this experience. SO here goes summing it all up :)

1. the house is little but i love it, it just means no running around in the morning and not very much to clean :).

2. My schedule is amazing. I wake up at 7:15 and wake up the kids and do breakfast and get the dressed and do dishes.. normal morning and then at 8:15 they leave for school with the mom. Then I am in charge of laundry (washing, hanging, and ironing the kids clothes) and emptying the dishwasher and making the kids beds.. so I have that to do which takes at most an hour a day and sometimes 10 minutes.. then i am free until 4:10(ish) when Dario gets out of school and we wait around until about 4:30(ish) until Lisa gets out of school and then we head to the park until 7 (when it closes) and then come home for dinner, at that point I'm pretty much free unless they need something or want me to babysit. BUT Mondays they both have swimming after school and so Alessandra (the mom) takes them to that, Tuesday Lisa has gymnastics (so it's just me and Dario), Wednesday they both have activities at the gym and so Alessandra takes them, Thursday Dario had soccer but im not sure if he wants to do it or not (so i should have only Lisa) and Friday, Alessandra is off work and Luciano (the dad) usually gets home so they want to spend time together or the grandparents want them or sometimes I take them to the park. technically I am supposed to babysit one evening a week but only if they ask me. So my Job is super easy :) or so far it is, and it's totally laid back.. like my 3rd day i woke up 30 minutes late and Alessandra was just like oh its okay it happens and then i was sick and she took care of me all weekend and ya, its GREAT!

3. Tuesdays i go to the church and teach english with the missionaries and Thursdays is institute, but its in Italian so it's difficult to understand but I can get most of it, except the Gospel terms.. I think i want a lesson in gospel terms from the missionaries or someone.. I made a few friends from CA and they are here for 9 months or 1 year or less and they don't speak Italian so they rely on me sometimes which is SCARY lol but they are cool, I need to get their phone numbers so we can hang out though. and they have school or work ALL day so I am still stuck with nothing to do from 8:15-4...........

4.the kids are great.. Dario is a typical 5 year old boy that I absolutely loved and adored but these past few days, he's been AWFUL worse than sophies meltdowns about quesadillas so i just don't know what to do with him. im thinking a reward system of if your good and listen to me after school for 3 days in a row on the 4th day i'll buy you a snack instead of bringing one everyday.. so hopefully Alessandra doesn't mind if i do that, i have to talk to her about it and Lisa can tell me one thing she learned in school for 3 days in a row and the 4th day i'll buy her a snack because she always tells me that she learned nothing.. :) Lisa is a sweet sweet girl and loves her arts and crafts :) and always wants me to go to the park with them, just in case her friends are there so i'll play with her lol

5. The mosquitos are the worst.. ahhh i always get tons of bites even though i keep the mosquito repellant thingy plugged in.. But i kill at least 10 a night so you would think they would learn??..

6. Justin and I have been fighting alot over stupid things.. distance is hard but it just shows that I love him and I know that he loves me because he is going on a mission because I want that for our family (i think he's slowly getting excited for it though) He leaves in 19 days.... today was THE worst fight we have ever had, it started last night and then continued over to today.. like 8 hours of arguing and crying.. eventually he realized that it was a ridiculous fight and we both said sorry and that I was right (because I always am :))

7. I tried out my bike today that the other nanny left for me, I ALMOST DIED! I got into 3 crashes where thank goodness there were railings or I would have gone into traffic and almost hit an old man.. :( but totally not my fault!!!! The brakes didn't work, the steering was totally off, the seat was SUPER high but not possible to lower (but shes the same height as me.. hmm) and the seat was broken and yucky.. every bump HURT.. :( the tires would go crooked everytime i hit the smallest rock and the basket was cracked and the bell would ring everytime i hit a bump.. (bumps are unavoidable in Italy).. SOOOO i came home discouraged after 10 minutes and cried a little bit more.. and then got up went to the bike store and got a new bike, but after I called Justin and told him he could make it all up to me by buying me a new bike :) because it was a horrible day :( SO i went to the bike store and no one spoke english so i busted it all out in italian (wonderfully i might add) they totally understood me and helped me get a cool new bike for 120 euros (175 dollars) not tooooo bad for a brand new bike in Florence ( i could get a used one like the one i had for like 50 euros but i was not up to a bad experience again) and i love my new bike here is a picture :)

and the intense job of locking it up before i left it because apparently bike theft it a HUGE problem in Italy and if i'm not going to use it the next day ill put it in the basement

8. Then i rode to McDonalds, it took me an hour and a half (even though it was 5 minutes from my house) because the stupid one way roads and trying to find the bike path but sometimes there wasnt one and riding with Italian drivers on the road is intimidating.. :( but I DID IT :) yay me. :) and then got home in 5 minutes.. and now tonight, im not sure what i'm going to do, maybe hit up a kareokee bar to try and make friends because it's student night

9. I miss everyone like crazy and I know this next month is going to be so hard on me, Justin leaving and getting used to not talking to him and what to do with myself during the day and all that jazz but I'm grateful for the amount of support and love i get from all of you at home. Right now I'm thinking I'll come home next August because as much as I love it here, i miss everyone and especially my family and I need to continue on my path of education. Thanks for all you do for me and for rooting me on :) take care and i'll post pictures of the kids eventually.. :)

p.s. i got THE cutest haircut. love it! i'll post pictures eventually :)

i think that wraps it up.. any questions? love you all

Day one of Rome

Now i am in Rome staying at Silvia's house because Fefe is on a trip to pick up her sister from Lisbon. Today I visited the Vatican City and Castel Saint Angelo

I went inside the HUGE CHURCH and it was beautiful. It was funny to watch the gaurds tell people no picture no picture. Although it was sad at the same time because it is a beautiful place but it is still their church and i wish everyone could be respectful of that. I would get upset if one of our temples were opened for visitors and people just took pictures of everything. It's a sacred place but its absolutely gorgeous inside and out. I only took outside pictures, sorry you'll just have to come visit me and see the inside yourself :)

Then I walked to the Castel and sat outside in the shade of a tree just looking at the beauty and enjoying the silence without a million tourists around.

AND ILL HAVE YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T GET LOST ONCE :)

have a great day, ill let you know what i do tomorrow!!

Arezzo

After Elba, we went to Arezzo (which is in Tuscany) and stayed with Fefe's boyfriend Marco. His dad owns a really nice hotel so Fefe and I layed by the pool while Marco worked and ate whatever we wanted for the whole day. it was great.

One night we went to Martina's boyfriend, Daniel, concert.

It was just a little one but it was in a beautiful location. The sunset turned everything pink.

It was a great concert but it was at 9 which of course is dinner, we were going to eat before but there was nothing around it to eat!! so we starved for the first half, then someone brought us croissants with apricot marmalade YUMMY..