This is going to be a long one since I'm smushing so much travel into one! Our second weekend was our first group trip to Pisa, Florence and Tuscany. We had to wake up super early (7 am) and we all got on a bus and drove 5 hours to Pisa. I was still exhausted from Tiesto so I slept the whole way and even when we got there I was still pretty out of it, but feeling more awake than I had. When we first got there, we met up with our tour guide and walked around the ...

Since I can't recount every single day I figured I would hit on the main points of my week. I realized that I can't be eating all this amazing Italian food and not even working out to combat all the calories. Even though I'm walking more than I ever did in my life, I missed running! So I put on my gymshoes, looked at a map and walked to the park by my house and started to go. It was awesome! I would have to say that running at my farm house in wisconsin is prett...

The next day we got to sleep in a bit because it was the weekend and we didn't have our tour until 2. It was our biggest tour of the trip, going to the Colosseum and the Roman Forum. Our usual tour guide was there and we toured the Roman Forum first, which is basically a bunch of excavated buidings dating back to Roman Empire. I even got to see where Julius Caesar was cremated! There were many flowers and gifts on ths big pile of dirt from the Italians. It's real...

After a couple of days, Trista wanted to check out this restaurant that Edgar recommended her so me, Caroline, ashlee and Trista went to the Abbey, which is this Irish Pub. We met up with Nick, Jamie and Kyle. I got pasta which was a bad choice since their specialty is american food and not talian. I'm mad I didn't get a burger because I'm craving some american food pretty bad right now even though Italian food is amazing, a burger sounds pretty good right about ...

The second day, we woke up super early since we had to get our AUR id's that would let us in the front gate. After we got our id's trista showed us this amazing sandwich shop right around the corner from aur. The Romans (not italians) were so nice to us in there. They gave us free samples of their crumbly parmesan cheese. I've learned that if you try and speak italian when ordering things, it makes the interaction with them a lot better. They are a lot nicer to y...