Italy and Greece Adventure: Saturday 6/18/11

8:38 am (Italy Time)
Bus from Mediterranean Sea to Florence
Last night's dinner was HUGE and wonderful- I wasn't really hungry for breakfast, but I packed a lunch with what I didn't eat at breakfast.
Right now we're listening to another one bites the dust on the radio- Brie would be happy. (Then we listened to Queen xD)

10:25 am (Italy Time)
Cinque Terra stop 1
I got a postcard while I was here! I <3 postcards. I can't wait until the rain we will go on soon. I didn't have a chance to go to the hello kitty store yesterday, but that's okay because I got gelato instead. Apparently here at the cinque terra (stop 1) they have nutella flavored gelato. That's just fantastic. Sometime I will have to find another store with it and buy some.

1:14 pm (Italy Time)
Cinque Terra stop 2
Just had espresso, the cups are tiny but they carry so much caffiene. I bought something called 'nutella to go' also. I've found something they need in the U.S. It's like pocky, but instead of chocolate, it's nutella and it has tea with it, too. All in one containter. It's great.

Daily Food List

• Day 2 Dinner- Lasagna, pasta, pork and potatoes, fruit, salad, black raspberry gelato
• Day 3 breakfast- bread, orange juice
• Day 3 lunch- croissant, peach jelly, strawberry and lemon gelato, espresso

11:14pm (Italy Time)

Hotel in Florence

Took the train back to our bus, drove to Florence, toured the city and went to dinner at a pizzaria, came back to the hotel, went on another mini-tour and gelato stop with Michelle, Amy, Rebecca, Zac E, and Michael F. Back at the hotel now, Rebecca braided my hair because she was bored. Olivia is our other roommate tonight (my roommates were Olivia and Rebecca this time, in other words.) Olivia wants me to draw a picture of her, so I should start a base for that. I'm rushing because I'm kind-of sleepy. Goodnight.

Shopping List (updated throughout the trip, this is the final)

Mom- Mask (check)

Dad- Coke water bottle, because I broke his that I brought with (check)

Sue- thimble (check)

Bethy- Pins, beads left those at a restaurant, necklace (check)

Cassie G- Tricolore pasta (check)

Grandma Moffit- Scarf (check)

Grandpa Moffit- Truffle Oil (check)

Grandma Bice- Italia Bag (check)

Grandpa Bice- get something in Greece

Me- Postcards!!! Cat Purse! Necklace? (check)

Rae- Get something in Greece!

Italy and Greece Adventure: Friday 6/17/11

5:31 pm (Italy Time)
Hotel Room
After eating I tried to sleep and failed. Then about 2 hours before landing I threw up the gross airplane food. After landing and getting my suitcase we went to a bankomat and I couldn't get money out because it was all in savings instead of checking. After driving to the hotel and calling my mom twice using Amy's phone I was able to get money, so it's okay.
Driving was long- everyone had jetlag and slept. It was good that our plans changed and we didn't go to the cinque terra right away.
Tonight I'm rooming with Amy, Michelle, and Rebecca. Michelle is already asleep and we haven't even had dinner yet. Dinner is at 7, wake up is at 6:30, breakfast at 7, leave for our next city at 8.
Apparently we will be having the same motorcoach driver for all of Italy, which is pretty awesome. I can't pronounce or spell our driver's name, but it starts with an M (Marizzio? perhaps?) He and Latitzia (however you spell that) are hilarious.
We made a cafe/gas station stop on the way here, but no one really wanted to get up and we felt so awkward talking to people in Italian, which we don't speak or understand.
I can hear cars outside our hotel room, Italian drivers are as horrible as I've heard and we all suck at crossing busy roads. There are so many cars and mopeds and bikers- it's very different from America. In Italy they park their small smart cars pretty much anywhere (except in the middle of the street) including the medians in the road. We're parked for the night here, kind of close to the beach of the Mediterranean, but it's cloudy so I couldn't bring myself to go swim. We did walk, though, so that's fun. I really want to go into this hello kitty shop next door, but it'll have to wait until after dinner when we go for gelato.

Italy and Greece Adventure: Thursday 6/16/11

1:50pm (Minnesota Time)
Airplane from Minneapolis to Atlanta
We left from school this morning at 7 am to go to the Minneapolis airport. THe bus ride seemed to fly by- I sat next to Rebecca, and we didn't stop talking except to listen to Sassy's announcements. Usually I feel a little awkward sitting near people I don't know well (like sitting next to Mary and Michael A right now) but I guess Rebecca and I have actually known each other since preschool, though I don't really remember that far back.
After arriving at the airport around 8:30 and going through security we had to wait until boarding at 11:45. Michelle, Amy, Michael F, Rebecca and I wandered around the airport and also played egyptian rat for a while.
When we land in Milan it will be morning and we wil be off to see the Cinque Terra, so we need to sleep on the 8 hour flight from Atlanta to Italy. I can't wait until we land- the airplane tends to hurt my eardrums. At least I have gum to help a little. Now the flight attendant is here for food and drink so I shall be off.
(cont.) The layover in Atlanta will be the worst, I think- an hour before a long flight. Great. Bethany will be glad to know that we're watching Glee in the flight to Atlanta- and that there was a King Arthur type movie.

7:41pm (Atlanta Time)
Flight from Atlanta to Milan
We only had about half an hour to roam the airport in Georgia, but after getting on the plane one of the seats had problems so we took off at about 6:30 rather than 5:30 when we got on the plane. I have two clocks on my watch so it's actually 1:45 am in Milan. All of the timezone issues are crazy! 7 hours ahead of Minnesota, 6 ahead of georgia- going as soon as we land 'to get accustomed to the time zone and eliminate jet lag', according to Sassy (I think she just wants to pack as much trip time into 2 weeks as she can)
We return at like Midnight on the 30th, as crazy as that sounds. I got a postcard and combos while in Atlanta- I feel so American. We actually get food on our flight to Milan, which is something I've never done before... but I hear it's terrible. Also, I still have my henna from the senior party last weekend. It looks like this:

The left is an actual picture of the henna, the right is the one I drew in this journal

I kind of wish I had brought my cross stitching along- Mrs. Boline sitting next to me on the plane is doing crochet and it just makes me remember all of the stitching I need to do once I get back- and that brings everything else I need to do. Like thank-you's for graduation gifts and finishing Cassie G's video game (which I still haven't done 5 months later xD).
Speaking of which, I wonder what I should get for her while in Italy. She is our Hetalia Italy, after all.

Shopping List

Bethy- hard rock cafe pin, buttons, beads
Mom-?
Dad-?
CG-?
Brie-?
Sue-?
Raelynn-?

Kayleigh wants me to get her a picture of Sassy at the Trevy Fountain, but I'm not sure if I will get her something else or not.
I'm going to be gone for Father's day, so I should probably try and get something extra special for him.
We're being served food now so I will write more when I can.

Deviant Update: Work

Yeah so I work at a grocery store now. Surprising huh? Anyway, I'm going to be less active because of that (I've been working from 9-3:30 for the past 3 days now doing training) I can't wait until school starts and I can work nights and weekends. All of this day work is just exhausting to me. I mean school will be during the day, but I'm taking all art classes so... no problems there. I've never had a problem sitting for that long, but standing is just...
Blah. I'm just tired. And out of caffeine. That's the second part of horribleness.

I was going to go to a chocolate party today- and get rid of some of my chocolate at home. I hate the stuff. I was just too tired to go. And /now/ my parents want me to go grocery shopping with them. Because I haven't spent enough time at the grocery store today. >.< TTYL~ this isn't part of the dA update, but I will post the journal from Italy and Greece when I can. At first I was just too lazy to do it, and now I'm just too busy xP

I'm back!

I have returned from Italy and Greece (actually I've been back for a little while, now but... holidays and stuff have caught up with me)
Anyway, I wrote a journal while I was there and hopefully I will be better about uploading it than my camp journal (6 days in 6 months is not a good record)

In any case: ITALY AND GREECE ADVENTURE JOURNAL is coming soon!
~Haley

Deviant Update: ~Italy and Greece~

I'm so excited! I'm leaving at 7am tomorrow for a flight with my Latin class to Italy and Greece~ It's going to be so much fun! I can't wait!

Anyway, this means I'll be on a two-week hiatus after today! But I'll have lots of pictures when I get back, so be prepared for the spammage. xD

I've been so busy lately with gradumacating and such that I haven't done any stitching for so long TT-TT I guess I'll have to finish it all when I get back. And watch xxxHolic. And play Fragile dreams that I borrowed from CG. And finish all of my graduation thank you cards.
...my to do list just keeps getting longer >.<

*goes to procrastinate some more*

Tumblr

So I finally just broke down and got a tumblr. Don't worry! This is my main blog and I'm not leaving it, the tumblr is just going to replace my "random thing I found on the internet" posts (otherwise known as "internet finds")

Click here to go to my tumblr!

Yeah, it's been a while since I posted. Life is catching up with me... and it's difficult to post relevant blogs every day. That is why tumblr is going to be my savior.

Anyway, have a good rest of the day~
Haley