no regrets.

June 14, 2014 We finally got to sleep in somewhat! We got to sleep until 9! Wuuuudup. But when I woke up, I felt like I had been thrown in front of a train. My entire body was sore from the uphill hike the day before. And it was still sore from kayaking and the other hike! My body is such a wimp.  While we were packing up our stuff, Elia and Yvonne's 3 year old was literally beating us up. It was an unfair fight. She kept grabbing my nose with her fingernails and twisting her hand and she was biting us and punching our faces and hitting us. What on earth do you do when a child who doesn't know English and you barely know their family starts doing that?! I kept trying to hold her back but then she would scream and her mom already didn't like us much so I had no idea what to do. We just packed up as fast as we could and got the crap outa there!  We went to Coop to get breakfast and I had my last Dr Pepper for a while because apparently they don't have it in Australia. Swi...

June 6, 2014 Today was a slow one. We woke up at like 9:45. Heather said we could stay in their vacation home so we moved upstairs to that. It's sweet! We get our own room, kitchen, bathroom, and living room. The best part of the kitchen is that it leads off to a GORGEOUS balcony. It's surrounded by other balconies and it has a ton of flowers. So Italian. So awesome.  We finally got ready and Dave (heather's husband) gave us directions and some pointers on what to do for the day. He told us we had to get our bus tickets at the bar around the corner first because they have bus police and if you don't have a ticket that's been stamped, they'll fine you right there. So we headed to the bar right away. We couldn't find it. We had just arrived in Florence and we were already lost. So we went back to Heather's and asked Dave for more direction and he started explaining the bar to us and come to find out, he was talking about a cafe. That we had seen! That was ...

June 1, 2014 We were planning on waking up for church. We really were. But then none of us heard the alarm go off and so we slept until 12:30. Gosh the time change murders us! We'll be better. Hopefully.  We got up and headed off to Freddie's moms house. Her name was Claire and her boyfriends name was John. His dogs name was Bodhi. She fed us snacks and freshly squeezed orange juice. It was divine. While Ashlyn and Kinsey talked to Claire, John taught me all of Bodhi's tricks. And there were a lot of them. Bodhi immediately became my best friend. We played fetch, he caught the ball in midair, he hung on to that ball like his life depended on it. I could swing him any which way and he would still be hanging on. You can also play hide and seek with him and it's hilarious. You pretend to put the ball under a box and while he's tearing up the box looking for the ball you go and hide it somewhere. It's seriously the funniest thing fever. I was enjoying my time with h...