Margherita Pizza & Red Wine

My first plane ride!

How awesome is it waking up to this?

Margherita Pizza and Red Wine!

The pretty lights down our street!

January 7, 2011

So we have officially landed in Italy! We were thrown into a taxi and had the craziest drive ever to our apartment...they have these large streets with no lines and the cars basically drive wherever they want, I literally thought I was going to die before I got to see the city! haha. And there was a drunk old guy walking in the street and our cab driver rolled down his window and yelled something to him. We got to our apartment and luckily we only had to walk up one flight of stairs because all of the girls had at least two suitcases. But we walked in and our apartment is HUGE! It's so nice! It is like a long hallway with all of the rooms off of the hallway. There are 3 bedrooms (one single and two doubles), 3 bathrooms (2 with showers and bidets!), a large kitchen, a family room, and a large room which is like an entrance room. I was told I have 4 roommates, but technically we have two more because when you walk in our apartment there is a door to the right and a door to the left and on the right is the other apartment which has a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. However, their toilet doesn't work so they have to come over to our side to go to the bathroom, so basically 7 girls live in one big apartment: Jackie and Sarah live on the one side, and Marissa, Danielle, Lauren, Claire, and I live on the other side. Claire and Lauren played rock, paper, scissors to determine who got the single, and then once Claire won we put the final 4 names into a hat and the first two drawn would room together in the room with the balcony off of it....and me and Marissa's names were pulled! We all tried to unpack but realized we were STARVING! Our landlords came to explain the apartment briefly and described a few pizzerias we could go to for a good dinner. We ended up going to this cute little restaurant and ordered the most classic thing: Margherita pizza and red wine. The pizza came out and was enormous...I swear it was the size of a large pizza and you better believe I ate every single bite of it! We all went home and realized that two of our toilets didn't work, but I was able to take a shower before heading to bed. However, the showers are like 2x2 cubes and I hit my elbows just shampooing my hair! When me and Marissa got settled down and laid in bed we both cracked up laughing because we went to lay our heads down and our pillows are like air! Literally your head sinks right down to the mattress, but it didn't even matter, sleep never felt so good!