Italy.

Wow, I can finally say I have made it here! Got here late last night, after a verrrryy long night/day of travel with hardly any sleep on the plane unforutnately. Fortunately we were well fed, with many beverages, unlimited amounts movies, tv shows, games, and music. I finally got the courage to order some red wine on the second flight, which I ended up having some left over and used to drink with my first home-cooked dinner tonight.
Upon arriving yesterday, we got a taxi from the airport and soon found out how crazy they drive over here. They swerve, cut people off, look like theyre gonna hit anything thats in front, to the left, to the right, basically all around them. They hardly stop for pedestrians, so you better look out when you're walking the streets! All said and done, we did make it to the check in point in one piece.
After getting a little overview and the keys to our apartment, we were set off in the streets of Florence to find our place. We even got easier directions from the counselor than what was on the google map directions. Sounds like it'd be an easy find since it was only a little more than a block away right? Wrong, oh so wrong. Of course, knowing me, I should have known that I would get lost, and, I did. Andrea (was on my same flight) is good with maps, but where we ended up was NOT on the map that we had! ah! Someone not so sketch helped us out and we were able to FINALLY find the door to our apartment building, after a 10 (what should have been a 2) minute walk, with ALL of our luggage.
And we're on the 2nd floor (which in America would really be the 3rd floor) so imagine carrying a three month packed suitcase up alll of those stairs, hopefully we didn't wake the neighbors.
Well we unpacked a little, showered and went out for our first italian dinner which was actually pretty late, luckily they eat out late here!

my dinner! it tasted better than it looked :p