ello everyonnee
so i have been in italy for the past two weeks and wow there are no words to describe how amazingly beautiful it was.
unlike most of my journals this is going to be LAGIT LONG!
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so i wont say the story but the bottom line is NEVER TAKE UNITED AIRLINES EEVVEERR!! they made us miss two days of our cruise... those fuckers. once we got to italy it was fantastic! so the first day we spent was in florence. OMG IT WAS SO GORGEOUS!!! there was so much great shopping and we went to this church i forget the name but it was filled with beautiful medieval art. the cruise was in livorno for two days so we went to florence twice. the second day we were on a tour and we saw the entire city and all its sites, including the duomo, the uffizi gallery, the david and the leaning tower of pisa and no i did not take a picture of me holding up the leaning tower and then more shopping . the next day was a day at sea on the cruise so all i did that day was sit around by the pool and go swimming. i also saw 3 sea turtles in my looking over the side of the ship. the next day we stopped in sicily. so beautiful. we drove into taormina were we saw a greek theatre and got to see many panoramic views of the coast and then after that we went shopping again . that night i went with my brother to the teen program and made sooo many friends . there was chris, xavian, shaundean, mitch, veronica, and alexa. great people. like super awesome people. i spent the rest of my evenings with them. so after sicily the ship docked in venice for two days. the first day we poked around town and went shopping and sampled the restaurants. BEST PIZZA EVAAARRRRR! the next day in venice we missed our tour of a glass factory. lame, but we went into town and got a "free" tour. it was really a rip off i mean we got to see the glass factory and a person blowing glass but they made you buy some very over priced glass from there shop that was like all other glass in souvenir shops but still it was cool seeing them blow glass. then we went on a gondola ride through the city. very peaceful and enjoyable. day after venice was another day at sea. hung out by the pool with my mom and then later with my friends on the ship. the next day we were in dubrovnik, croatia. we walked into the old city with our tour and saw the old harbor and the historical sites. then we went off on our own and saw the synagogue of dubrovnik (second oldest synagogue in europe ) and then into town and went shopping (again, hehe). the outdoor market was great. the day afterward was again... day at sea and this time i just hung out with my friends. the final stop of the cruise was naples. there we saw pompeii and the cameo factory. i have never seen more beautiful cameos in my life and pompeii... there are no words to describe it. the next day we got off the ship . but we were in rome and we stayed there for two days and saw the pantheon, the colosseum, the trevi fountain, the spanish steps, the catacombs and lots more i just kind of forget the names lololol. and then we left and once again united airlines fucked everything up and we had to stay in washington d.c. a night AND THEN we went home.

so im back . i took 1756 pictures and i will be putting a bunch up at some point so do prepare yourself

KTHANXBYE
-emz