So we left Berlin on Friday afternoon. We got out of out Goethe classes, went home, grabbed our stuff and met at Zoo. Everything ran smoothly until we got to Venice. We followed the directions to our hostel but somehow managed not to find it. We ended up hanging out in a parking lot for like a half hour while we called them. Liz took 2 years of Italian at BYU so it fell to her to call. They gave us better directions and we got there eventually. We checked in and everything around like 3 am. The room was actually a single wide mobile home. That's right, we stayed in a trailer park. It was actually pretty cool because then it was just us in like a little apartment. We were right next to the airport but I was so dead tired, and I live by an Air Force base anyway, that the planes didn't bother me. It was just starting to get light outside when I went to bed. That's never a good sign.
Saturday morning my friends let me sleep in until like 9:15 or something. We had to check out at like 10:30. So we all got ready and packed up our stuff. For breakfast we had snacks that we'd brought with us from ze Tchermany. The hostel we stayed at offered a bus service to Venice. We utilized it. But there was traffic and it came late. Kyle went and sat down on one side of the parking lot and us girls went to the other cause he's got cooties. So this picture is from when a car pulled up. That's his head through the back window.
So then we took the bus to Venice. There were lots of tourist there. Seriously, I think that's the main source of income for that city. Well, there are also like glass and lace production but that's really touristy too. Good news is that it wasn't so hot that the canals were stinky. Cause let me tell you, the last time I was in Venice, it reeked.
Here's the short version:
Saturday we left Venice for Florence. Our hostel was like 45 minutes outside of it but it wasn't a problem because they offered a shuttle service. We couldn't find it. We all ran out of money on our phones calling the hostel trying to get better directions. We never found the hostel that night but at like 8:30 the next morning. I didn't sleep that night. Then we went to Florence. I took a 20 minute nap on a doorstep while Liz waited in line for the museum to see the David. There was an insane beeping noise in the car because there was something wrong and we couldn't figure out what the warning on the dash said. It suddenly occurred to Kyle that it was about the seatbelts. The alarm didn't stop. That was when I was at the end of my rope. Then we went back to the hostel. The next morning I found the problem and fixed it. But on the return trip we got a flat tire in Italy 300 km from the Austrian border. It was a holiday in Italy and everything was closed. We had to drive 50 mph until we reached Innsbruck. That took forever. Unfortunately, we got there after all the tire places were closed. We went from place to place trying to find someone to help us. Finally we called this guy and he came back to his shop and changed the tire. Then we got dinner at Mc Donalds. I saw a guy I swear I met last summer at a Tagung. We got back to Berlin at like 4 am and then I went home and slept for a really long time.
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