Italia

I was going to do a blow by blow account about Italy, but I'm thinking now i might just outline a few of the things that happened.

I would also like to just add, the first day i was there, i got so frustrated that i went out and bought a pen and notepad so that i could write down my thoughts.... I'm such a geek it is unbelievable.

The first fiasco was before we'd even left the country. First off let me just say, I was driving one car and mom was driving the other, now on the way up the motorway, we were constantly overtaking and as we each passed each other, someone would end up giving someone in the other car the finger, so it was all good fun.
When we got to the airport, there was no check-in desk open for us, so we waited around for about a half an hour, where i was mostly watching the other desks and famous-person hunting, i was secretly wishing to go to America, haha, wishful thinking.
We were the first to check in which was all fine, no over weight cases, and as always i beeped in security, i swear they just like feeling me up ¬_¬
Food was the next priority, there was so many fuck ups with the food, and the fucking alarm kept going off, we waited over an hour to get food, which was just stupid. We ended up having to just go down to the gate right after, which is about a 15 minute walk as its down a huge passageway >_<

When we were waiting by the gate, i needed caffeine so i went off to get coffee just about sat down when i got back with my coffee and people were standing ready to board, so i burnt myself with the coffee >_<
Then up on the screen it flashes delayed.
We ended up being delayed by about an hour.

When we landed we had to get our cases etc and get onto this bus out to the car hire place. As we were sat on the bus i noticed a sign on the back which was in italian and translated (Very badly) into English which read
"For Attention to Kind customer, we do not take responsibility for The Lost Object"
I nearly keeled over laughing, i couldn't decided whether this was an actual object or they meant lost belongings. *giggles again*

Again another delay when we got the car there was an accident on the Autostrade and we had to be diverted, we got to the hotel at about 12:30 Irish time, 1:30 Italian time and 7:30 American time. (Well Denise Time)

The next morning we walked into Desenzano for breakfast, like a 2 minute walk if even, and i had no sunglasses, as i think i said in a previous blog, they had got broken, so i was squinting and looked quite annoyed. Anyway we sat down at this cafe and ordered coffee, i ordered a hot chocolate, and they ordered croissants, now i do not like them, i haven't for a while and no matter how much "But you used to like them" and "Come on they're really nice" was not going to convince me otherwise to eat them. The hot chocolate also turned into disaster, it was literally melted chocolate in a cup, i am not kidding, i should have taken a picture, but i was in such a bad mood already that i was in no mood to laugh/joke etc. As i have possibly said before, i am NOT a mornings person.

We walked around for a while, i bought 2 pairs of sunglasses for like €12, (Thanks Denise for that idea <3) and a new belt. Now baring in mind its about 11am it was about 32 C and getting hotter. We got back to the apartment and went swimming (We had a pool)
Shortly after that we all got ready and off we went again, this time up the mountain in a cable car type of thing, it was really really pretty.
Oh on the way to it, we had some weird conversations. For Example
Adam tried to Ro-Shambo me for the Naboo Island Retreat in Lake Como, but i have dibs on it. This all started as Shelly called dibs on a castle we went past so i called Como palace and Adam decided he wanted it too, i made the HUGE mistake of saying Ro-Shambo my ass, when he said he would ro-shombo me for it >_<
If anyone is wondering Ro-shambo, is when you kick each other in the groin until one of the two falls down.
Anyways, we also went past a crazy golf (Denise, remind me to show you video sometime)
and a place called Movie Land, we wanted to go there but dad said we were too old, to which Michelle yelled "We're NEVER too old for Movie land!!!"

Oh Dad missed the cable car on the way back down and he had to wait for the next one.
Oh we went to this sports shop and i managed to get the Vans i had been looking for Prison Issue #23


In the evenings when it got dark was the best, all the lights it was amazing, and it was really warm too. The first night there was classical music playing in the center of the town, and it was soooo pretty.

So the next morning i got rushed out and i forgot to take a spare t-shirt which was a HUGE mistake. We were heading to Venice and i love Venice. Again it is incredibly hot, and it was gradually getting hotter as the day went on, i had stupidly worn a 3/4 length sleeve top, it was thin but my god was i hot, i thought i was going to melt, i had a very uncomfortable experience while there, my back got so hot, the weirdest thing was i was dying of the heat, but you couldn't tell, if you touched my skin i was like ice. Weird.(Which i have been informed is a sign of sunstroke, alot of things now make sense)
We ate in the same restaurant as i did in March and i loved it, i got a waiters number, heh, he was very very nice, and the service is excellent ^_^
We walked around Sr.Marks, i bought i new t-shirt as i was too hot in the other.
On the way back to the car we stopped int he infamous Billa supermarket, i heart Billa, its cheap and has air conditioning ^^
500ml cans of Coke FTW!!


Oh shit i nearly forgot we went on a gondola tour around Venice, definitely worth €100 that was for the 6 of us, its a fixed price i think, so it was amazing, i would recommend it for sure. We went past Casanovas house ;)
Again got back and went for a swim, i was lucky this holiday that my hair didn't turn green.

Didn't do much on Thursday hung around mainly. Oh went to the Simply market in the evening i spent 30 minutes picking pasta and i ended up going with normal spaghetti as i couldn't choose ¬_¬

The last day no one wanted to leave, we packed up the car and headed out to Verona, went to Juliettes balcony, again it was very hot, i like Verona its very very pretty.
We headed off to the Orio center after that, i won't even go into that ¬_¬
and finally to the airport.

We finally got home at about 2am i think. God i missed my bed.

Jadey
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