Day 305

I'm so hot right now, the internet's not working and I am COVERED in mosquito bites...but hey! I'm in Italy!

After breakfast this morning, my Mom and I went to catch a bus to Pisa Centrale. We were an hour early, so we sat in a cafe, had something to drink and a couple of cookies. We finished just in time to go to the bus stop. I wasn't feeling good on the way in, so I went to sleep. My Mom woke me up at the appropriate stop.

I began walking up the street with her, with great difficulty. You'd think I was wearing new feet! First I scratched myself with my sun umbrella (which really hurts by the way, and you'd think after doing it once, you'd learn!), and then, trying to pay attention to the scrape, I tripped off the curb. I didn't fall...but it was just the beginning of many feet mishaps to come.

We found our way to the leaning tower of Pisa, and leading up to it, we came across this stall of jewellery. The next thing I knew, I was walking away with a new bracelet! Wait til you see it! Let me just say, without ruining anything...I'll never be short on silverware at a picnic. Anyway, we walked towards the Tower and began taking numerous pictures. Not just for ourselves, but for others as well. We also saw some steal our ideas for what to do with the tower...but we didn't mind. It was one of those Party of 13 things. *Some of you know what that means*

After spending a couple of hours there, and popping into a store to buy an adapter converter, and a charm for my zoppini bracelet, we had thought up what I wanted engraved on my new bracelet, but needed an internet cafe to make sure I was right about something. The guy who makes the jewellery was on a hunt for us. He was asking people if they had internet on their phones, but nobody did. Eventually someone told us where we could go online, so we walked up to this photocopy place, and paid a euro for about 5 minutes of internet. Once I had what I needed, my Mom and I hoofed it back to the jeweller's table. When we arrived, he asked me to write exactly what I wanted on a piece of paper, and then began the inscription. "Day 305, Mom & Me". On the other side of it, he had already put "Pisa, Italy 17/07/10" for me, as he knew I wanted that as well. We thanked him, bought two cups of fruit, and began walking back to catch a train to Lucca.

When we arrived at the train station, we bought our tickets, but then decided, with train and bus schedules, we wouldn't have as long in Lucca as we'd want. We decided to save the ticket for tomorrow, and we hopped on the bus to come back to the Bed and Breakfast. We had it all planned out. Because we had such a crappy/late night last night, due to no alarm clock and worrying about waking up on time...we'd come back to the area for dinner, watch Big Brother, and get an early night. Well, we were told where we had to go for dinner, so we stopped at the restaurant and were told they didn't open til' 7. Fair enough. We continued up the hill to the Bed and Breakfast, and got washed up for dinner. Ok, so I flopped down on the bed for a few minutes first...but after that walk, in that heat...I think you may have as well.

We walked back down for dinner, enjoyed too much bread and pasta, but I decided to have a Lemon Sorbetto anyway for dessert, and the two of us got a Cappuccino. We walked back up to the house, into our rooms, got ready for bed, checked our e-mails etc, were just about ready to watch Big Brother...and the internet disconnected. Dammit! I'm still sitting here waiting for it to kick back in, but I think that's wishful thinking. :( As for the mosquito bites...I had 11 on my right leg alone, when I left this morning, and before dinner, I had 14 on that one leg...after coming back from dinner, I had a whole new slew, and couldn't stop dancing around because I was so itchy. What a horrible feeling! I haven't been bitten by mosquitoes since I lived in Winnipeg! Anyway, now that I've had my bath and everything, they're not nearly as itchy as they were, but I'm getting super hot, and am afraid they'll start itching all over again real soon...so I'm going to try to sleep now. Good Night xx