halfway through our last week of class! we both have a final on thursday though, so that's a bummer. we both got a's on our first tests though, so i think we will be alright ;)

this afternoon we are heading to a wine & chocolate tasting. i'm excited! more for the chocolate than the wine though, haha :) as for the rest of our final week, we plan on definitely going out to dinner saturday night and then up to michaelangelo's point. we might take a day trip on friday to siena and another small town (i can't remember the name) just for something to do. we may also go out on thursday night, just to celebrate the end of classes. then sunday is pack pack pack, home monday :) we leave florence at 730 am so we will definitely be going to bed early on sunday night!

this past thursday we went out to a few pubs. the first was an irish pub, and we ended up leaving pretty quickly after getting there, because of a fight between an italian man and woman. he ended up slamming her head into a wall and at that point we decided it was time to move on. then we went to a scottish pub-the fish pub- and ended up staying there for a little longer. then on saturday we went to pisa for the day. it's such a small place! we went to the leaning tower and took some pictures, and then got lunch at a little pizzeria near the tower. it was really good! the tower was really cool to see too, it leans a lot more than i expected! after that we just wandered for a while before heading back to florence. sunday we went to dinner with my step cousin and his girlfriend, who are backpacking through europe and just happened to be in florence. and last night we went to the free farewell dinner from the school. there were a ton of people there, and i think not quite enough food. but kameron and i both tried pâté...i didn't like it very much (surprise), and kameron said it reminded him of hash. at least we tried it!

have to go get ready for the chocolate/wine tasting!

see you monday!!