Ciao Bella!

Literally obsessed with Florence. I knew this from my previous trip to Italy in high school, but this past weekend i remembered just how much i love it. one of my favorite cities in the world. before i could even drop my bags at lauryns apartment, her friend rocco is asking/making sure i get ready to come out. i immediately get changed and off we go. we hit up a bar called shot cafe & then head to a club called full up, which jersey shore went to when they were in florence hehe. after a little bit of shmoozing, we found ourselves in the vip room, with plenty of grey goose bottles around to snag.



At six a.m. we were finally going to sleep...only to be woken up four hours later by a much too awake kim haha.
After dragging myself and lauryn out of bed, we attempted to make moves to go eat & go to the markets. we were "sunglasses drunk" as laur likes to call it & walked i dont even know where to find markets that ended up being closed hahaha struggle city. we hit up a different market on the way back & then went to the ponte vecchio!





on the way back to the apartment, we stopped and saw where the jersey shore worked when they were there! stupid, but exciting to me haha



for dinner, lauryn recommended a place called zaza's. me, katie, kim, emily & matt went and had an absolutely delicious dinner! possibly the best restaurant in florence ? me, k&k split a bottle of wine and we all ate so much pasta and bread...but of course saved room somehow for gelato on the walk home. literally haven't laughed so hard at a dinner in so long. so much fun.

the next day, after a few setbacks, we all got on a bus to take a three city tour around italy! the first stop was siena. it was a beautiful little town! it reminded me exactly of the scene in new moon where bella is running to find edward in the streets. with all the hills and the town square, it looked just like it.



from there we headed to our wine tasting lunch in san giagmano. we ate at a vineyard in a room with sliding doors that overlooked the rolling hills and vineyards. it was an absolutely unreal sight. i turned to kim and even said "is this real? is this really our lives?"



the meal was amazing. everything was grown right there at the vineyard. there were four courses and with each one we had a different wine. by the end of the meal, we were all full & tispy. we went outside into the sunshine on a perfect day and took in the beautiful vineyard sights.



after lunch, we went into the town of san giagmano. it was the cutest medieval town with absolutely amazing views. we all sat on the wall and just soaked in the sun & then did a little shopping.



our last stop of the day was pisa. of course we took the cliche pictures holding up the tower, or pushing it down.



the next day i met everyone at the ponte vecchio again...literally obsessed with it. we took more pictures, ate lunch at a delicious cafe & then ate the most delicious gelato right on the wall on the al forno. amazing.





the rest of the weekend mostly consisted of extreme amounts of shopping & eating! haha i didn't have much to complain about!