arrivederci america

On Friday we walked to Genzano, the other neighboring town besides Albano. It was a lot bigger than Ariccia and very pretty! That night Jessica, Laurel, and Julia went to this restaurant and had pizza for the first time! It was delicious!

Saturday, we rode the train to Rome. We had to go to three different places to buy train tickets and we thought we were going to miss the train because it left at 10. Well it didn't leave until 10:25, so we ran all the way for nothing. Once we got to Rome we shopped - which was wonderful! We were trying to find a store called Zara and I saw a lady with a bag. So I went up to her and said (well probably yelled) "Za-ra...Do... you... know... where... Za-ra... is?", because I just assumed she didn't know English. Not the best assumption...she starts spitting out perfect English. She probably thought I was the retarded one! ha I'm definitely not going to do that again!

That night a girl in the group had organized a pub crawl. So we went and checked into our hostel -my first and maybe last experience in a hostel. Just kidding, tt wasn't too bad...I'm starting to figure out we're pretty spoiled in the U.S. We had 4 girls in our room and a sink. The toilet and shower were community. At least it was only 9 Euros!

The pub crawl was hilarious and definitely an interesting experience. I was expecting maybe 20 people to be going...nope, it was more like 150! People were from everywhere. About 50 of them were from Denmark and they're not kidding when they say Denmark is a happy country. They were singing Denmark songs like it was their job. One of the pubs was really nice and very chill. For the other two...just imagine you're in karma on Jersey Shore. Italian guidos were everywhere. I felt like I should've been fist pumping at all times! But we danced and met some Australians so it was very fun! Oh, and people here like to dress up to go out. So there were bunnies and people from the 70's. It was very interesting! Here's a few pictures...

On our walk to Genzano...