Day 43: Friday
Pisa with Elli, Brandon, Joe, and Dylan. It was nice to be back to hanging out with the gang like we had in Rome. It was about an hour to Pisa, and when we arrived we walked all the way across town to the Duomo, where we found that, in fact, the tower is very much leaning. We spent a good long time taking a lot of silly ridiculous touristy photos, and then decided we would like to go inside the Duomo. It was pretty standard inside, but they were playing music and it was beautiful, so we stood for a while listening. The boys also went inside the bapistry, but Elli and I didn’t because we didn’t want to pay. Finally we made our way back to the train station, grabbing ice cream on the way, and Elli and I decided we didn’t want to deal with the headache of going to Carrara and trying to figure out how to see the mountains. We thought we wouldn’t have enough time since we had to be back by 7 for our end of trip party, which we deemed it safe to call “academic wrap up.” Joe, Dylan, and Brandon, however, went on to Carrara. After a freezing ride home, we made it back in time to eat dinner and shower before it was time to go across the hall to the boys’ where the party was supposed to be. No one was there yet, except the people who live there, but we started hanging out anyway. People started showing up shortly. Petrie showed up but apologized for his wife not being there since there was some trouble back home with their daughter. The party was fun, and everyone went around conversing with everyone else about random things, and sadly we eventually all had to sy our goodbyes. I can't wait to hangout with everyone again when we get back to the EL. It's an absolute must!
