Assorted Thoughts

Wow. Man. I can't believe I'm home already. I can't believe I even got to go. It went by so fast. Wednesday I was all cranky because we didn't have time to see the Colosseum before our train to Florence and we had to waste time standing around in a train station for a long time. I was raining when we got to Florence (which was pretty much what the weather was like for the whole trip, unfortunately) so we kinda wandered aimlessly and looked at the jewlery shops on the Pontevecchio (a really old bridge from like, 1335 or something). The next day was better, we took a tour of Florence, went shopping in the market, and took a tour of the Uffizi gallery. Which. Was. AMAZING. It was like taking a tour of my art history text book. Seriously, I was completely overwhelmed. It meant so much more to me than it would have if I hadn't taken art history.

Unfortunately after that my knee was killing me from walking around everywhere, so the next day when we took the train back to Rome for one last afternoon of sightseeing I was in unpleasant amounts of pain. But at least we got to tour the inside of the Colosseum finally, and we took the subway to the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps (although we still aren't entirely sure what they are.) By then it was pouring and dark out and we were collapsin', so we went back to our hotel one last time.

The plane ride home was a bit of a nightmare, because I was a bit feverish from sleep deprivation, but I'm mostly better now. Jet lag hit me harder than I expected. Yay sleep! I am so glad I have no miderms this week, otherwise I would die.