Made it to Madrid AND TRELLA!!!!!

so...firstly to fill you all in on what has happened since Switz. Jilli wrote me a comment and I broke to pieces, but then I had to get up and move onto Italy!! Our first destination was a little town in tuscany where we stoped at a winery and did some wine tasting!! some were really good and others I would rather not have put in my mouth. We were only given one white wine, which fell into my top 3, and most everything else was red. My favorites out of the red was the Chianti and the Chianti speciale (I think!), we were also served this amazing lasagna that was drizzled with a white truffle olive oil! YUM, After the tasting we wandered around this beautiful little town--probably the most beautiful in the whole of Tuscany, which was good because we then left for our hotel in I think it was called Caiore. This place was by the beach!!!, but looked a lot like it was in central california rather than beautiful Italy!! we took a boat the following day to Venice and it was absolutely gorgeous, we took a tour of Saint Marks, watched a glass blowing demonstration, and were then given free time to go have lunch and if time permitted a little bit of shopping. I ran off with Jocelyn, Staci, Susan, and one I don´t think I´ve mentioned yet fashion savvy Sara. we had the best lunch I think I´ve had the entire trip so far, it was honestly extraordinary!
That was our only day in Venice the next was Florence, which was also really pretty. The first night we were there most the entire group decided to go to the Disco Tech ¨Space¨!! the next day we had a tour that non of us were enthused for and a group of us went to the ¨ufitzi¨and the ¨academia¨where we saw michael angelo´s David!!!! coolest statue ever!!
Rome was next and we packed a lot in on our last day together!! we began with a tour of the collisium which was the number 1 thing I wanted to see on this tour I think. It is amazing to think of all the people through the years that have walked throught the same places that I have now walked and to walk throught the entrance to the collisium all I could think is ¨how many people walked in here expecting to die and most likely did!???!!!¨we then walked through the Valley of the Forum and then it was off to the Vatican City. In the Vatican City we took a lunch break and then walked the span of the entire country! Isn´t that amazing in only 2 hours we crossed a whole country! Inside the Vatican we went to the Sistine Chapel where we saw many unspeakable beautiful masterpieces by michael angelo, but non more well know than that of God giving life to Adam!!! It was amazing, Susan and I then got lost but only to find that we were the only one to get a close look at the alleged burial site of Apostle Peter, which meant a lot to me!!!
And finally this morning I woke up at 4:45am (which is about 7:45pm in cali the day before) to go to the airport to fly to Madrid and meet up with my friend TRELLA!!! yay I made it and I now look forward to 3 days of much needed rest whilst we stay with some of Trella´s relatives, i can´t explain how good it feels to be in such a homey place after these hotels!! and not to mention we get siestas!!!!