Forever Paisley

Hey, last stop on the big excursion. The remaining time in Cinque Terre was great, we finished up our hiking (almost died becaues oops we forgot water), saw a parade, got an early preview of the fourth of July fireworks we will be seeing soon, and even saw two local men get in a street fight, one of which was arrested.

Cinque Terre is so small and cute, the people are genuine, and the locals all know each other. We went from there to Milan. Milan is like the New York City of Italy, we arrived here on a train late afternoon and started seeking out our hostel. We asked, in total, five people all of which sent us in a completely different direction. So finally we asked two woman and they told us to take the Metro to Zara … the exact spot we had started two hours earlier. Within 20 minutes of getting back to our original location we had found someone who ACTUALLY knew where it was. Relief …

We took it easy last night, picked up a couple of beers, and watched MTV Italy style ( a few shows were in English) and put a close to our trip. Angie catches a train in a couple of hours back to Munich where she flys out and I catch a plane back to London at around 7pm. Then tomorrow we are both on our way back.

It has been an exciting experience and it will be hard to leave but I am looking forward to spending the fourth with my friends in family in MQT and then moving off to Seattle on the 9th. The transition shouldn’t be too difficult 🙂

A few random silly things about our trip to close it off:

I am praying that the European Mohawks and Mullets dont make their way back to the US!!!

Conversation between the sisters over a dish of gilato:
Angie – “Why is everything bad for you taste so good? Naturally our bodies are designed to reject things that aren’t good for it so why do we eat them?”
Al – ” Can you give me an example, I think lots of things bad arent rejected”
Angie – “Well, I mean, we don’t eat poison”

The Europeans may not know where it is you are trying to get to, but if you ask, they will give you directions anyways. I suggest relying solely on the map in front of you!

We met an Italian man at our hostel who claimed he got a degree in dentistry – which is ironic because he had a huge black stain on his two front teeth.

Italian pick up line “Hey lady!, where you from … Heaven?”

Allison, trying to get Angie to converse with her after a bickering session:
Al – “So whats Paprika anyways”
Ang – “A spice”
Al- “Yeah but where does it come from”
Ang – “Probably paprika seeds, why are you being so dumb?”
Al – “Well I was trying to get you to talk to me and I knew you liked spices”

Alrighty well there are a bazillion more but that is what comes off the top of my head. Hope all is well with everyone, see you back in the states soon enough!!!!!!!!

Cherrettie one and two