I'm back!!

Sorry I've been MIA! The week before last was midterms week so i was doing NOTHING but studying. So far i know i got a B in Italian and an A++ in political philosophy. So far so good!!

Then on that Thursday, Simon arrived in Firenze for the week (until last Thursday morning). I have pictures from that but I haven't finished resizing them and such. They should be up this week. We had a BLAST! I was so glad he was here. We walked around everywhere! The only thing that sucked was that it rained for a few of the days and it was FREEZING! Which is weird because it had only rained like 3 days since I got here and it had been like 60-70 the whole week before. AND after he left it rained for 2 days and then went back to 55 and sunny! I joked with him and told him he brought the bad weather with him. : ) he didn't of course. We went to the Piazza Michaelangelo, 5 museums (Uffizi, Bobli Gardens, Leonardo Da Vinci museum, torture museum, and the serial killers museum), and walked to places in the city I have never been! We went out to eat twice and I cooked for him the rest of the dinners. We did do lunch a LOT though. He loved the Kebabs here (its kinda like italys fast food!). We also went shopping for his family and such... i'm not going to say what he got because i know JoDee reads this (HEY JODEE!! MISS YOU!) but we did SO much and had SO much fun.

The only thing that stinks now though is that he made me homesick! I mean i LOVE it here and i wouldn't leave yet but I do miss the season changing, my friends and I know I'm going to miss Thanksgiving dinner! But at least I'll have my parents here with me for Thanksgiving. That will make me feel good! I also am sad that I'm not going to be able to decorate the apartment, and I'd ask Simon to decorate, but he isn't to much into decorating for any season. Maybe I'll do it when I get back. eh. who knows!!

Anyway, I've been doing a lot of knitting. I took a break from the circular needles because i think i messed something up. And when Simon was here we found an AWESOME shop with tons and tons of yarn! So I bought some and made one scarf in 2 days and started a second 2 days ago. Of course, I haven't been able to really put much time into it because I have classes started again. But I will keep you updated about my knitting (haha).

ALSO!! I'm going to Switzerland for 4 days with Brenda! I'm staying with my friend Lilly's mom! So we get free accommodation's but the flight was a little pricey. When i first looked it up it was only 51 euro. But I wanted to make sure that Lilly's mom was ok with having us there. So I decided to wait a little. Well I waited a little to long because it ended up costing 95 euro instead (130 dollars)! Which is still not that much but enough to make me go, AH! haha.

So thats the update. Pictures soon!

Ciao Ciao!

Wine Tasting in Tuscany!!

On Friday the 12th the school had a free wine tasting in Tuscany. So I decided to go! It was beautiful!! i couldn't believe it! Here are some GREAT pictures of it!
Mom- i have the address and info! we should go!!!

These are the grape vines.

This is at the really pretty wine house. It used to be owned by the Medici family (like everything in Firenze) and was a watch house.

My new friend Craig and of course Sarah!

My new friend Mike! He doesn't like pictures!

Gorgeous!

New friends!

Olive Oil buckets.

Wine Barrels.

The wine tasting! YUM!

I discovered a new kind of yummy... cheese with honey!!!

I bought 2 bottles and a jar of honey.
They sell wine, olive oil and honey. YUM!

Sitting outside!

Last But not Least, Day 1 con't... Eze and Monaco!

Sorry that took so long to upload all of them!!! I had 400 pictures to shift through and resize!!

Heres the second half of Eze and all of Monaco.

Beautiful!!

We saw this really cool art store!!! i looved it! i bought a postcard for myself! : )

In a church. i liked this painting.

Outside of the church.

Awesome looking graves.

Views.

Little restaurant in the Medieval town.

Bronze Elephants in the gardens below... this ones for mom!

View.

Monaco!

Monte-Carlo!

Cartier!

mountains in the background... it was breathtaking!

View from the Monte-Carlo looking out!

Dior

Right behind the crane is Grace Kelly's Palace.

House that looks fake.

The races at Monaco...

The bottom one says defibrillator. i thought that was funny.

Princess Grace Kelly.

the french REALLY want you to keep your clothes on.

Next up... a Wine Tasting trip i took with the school!