11/27/04

Today we slept in... it felt so nice. But the problem was that the hostel right next to our camp site where we take showers and go to the toilette had lockdown from 10am-2pm, so we didn't get to take a shower until after that. James and Kate were leaving for Venice today so we kind of hung out with them in the hostel while we were waiting to take a shower. We met a cool guy travelling by himself, brian, from Chicago, Il. We chatted it up with him for awhile too. Then we all went into Florence and had lunch at our fave sandwich shop for calzones and focaccia sandwiches again. very yummy. And then dropped Kate and James at the train station and walked around the city. The cold weather seems to be plaguing us, following us from country to country. Ihope this trend doesn't continue into the more southern areas. We got gelatto a anew place today and it was even better than the other gelatto. Caleb had vanilla and I had the death by chocolate. Death has never taste soooo good:) We tried, to no avail, to find either an open or not expensive internet place in town. Hence the long period between blogs, so sorry people. We got a bottle of 3 euro wine and went back to the camp site and inside the hostel to warm up and hang out before bed. we met this really nice couple, Sara and Joseph, from Nova Scotia, Canada. They have been travelling in Europe since July. They, like James and Kate, also worked in England for 6 weeks in between travels. They had lots of good ips for fast and cheap travel thru euope. thanks guys! There was an italian choir in the common romm where we were hanging out. They sang for about 2 hours. They were excellent, very loud, but good.