Cinque Terre

 One weekend in March we all had Friday classes so we couldn't really travel anywhere for the weekend. We went out Friday night for a little bit and all of the sudden decided we would get up really early and grab a train to cinque terre. So Kait, Kayla, Julia and I got up really early and went to the train station.. unfortunately had to wait until 9am to get a train. On the train we didn't really understand how seating worked so we just got to a place and sat down. Well it happened to be first class.. and people came to their seats BUT only Julia and I had to move. We moved to second class and sat down, someone came to that seat, so we got up and moved to another, some one came to that seat. Then we decided to stand by the bathroom.. so we stood for a little bit. (AKA Julia sat in the stairwell on the train) Then the ticket person came around and he told us in his broken English that he'd find us a seat.. so he did. And then someone came to that seat.. so we moved again.. and then again.. and finally decided to stand for the duration. All the while, Kait and Kayla comfortably sat in first class.

 Then we got to Monterosso and met a nice man in a pizza place and he told us where to go hiking. Good Lord. Hiking in Cinque Terre is pretty intense.. but man the view was pretty cool. Then we went over to Manarola and had dinner at a really cool seafood restaurant and took pretty pictures of the sunset. At dinner Kayla proceed to break her wine glass(I think that's the 10th thing she's broke this semester). Then after dinner we decided to go back to the main train station to get the train home. Well we couldn't find a ticket dispenser.. and the price for not having a 1 euro ticket is 50 euros.. COOL. So we hid in the bathroom on the train until we got there. THEN at the creepy train station with all the homeless people the ticket machine wouldn't let us buy a ticket for our 1:30am train home-AWESOME. So this Italian girl tried to help us it wouldn't work for her either and she almost missed her train. We were quite struggles that night.. never in my life would I have ever though I would have to sleep in a train station.

So when the train got there we asked the conductor if we could buy tickets for the train.. and he told us it was sold out. However, he let us buy standing room only tickets for 30 euros and i got to sleep on a little fold down chair on the way back for 5 hours.. when we got to Rome it was bright outside. Oh and by the way, Julia slept in 1st class the whole night.. So out of everyone the only person who didn't get 1st class was me. Typical.

BUT Cinque Terre was pretty cool.