Tuesday night was Fat Tuesday so Hope, Clara, Molly and I went out to The Joshua Tree. There were a lot of people there all dressed up in some crazy outfits. Since we didnt get to give Hope's birthday a respectable celebration on Sunday...we also decided to celebrate that as well!

The next stop we went was the following weekend to Paris. Clara and I stayed with her friend Ben. Katie was in Paris too and we got to hangout all day Saturday. The day on Saturday was spent in the cute park drinking wine and eating cheese and bread. That night we went out for Hope's 21st! Our flight didnt leave till late on Sunday so we got to do some more sightseeing before we left by going to the Musuem d'Osay. The weekend was a lot of fun, but we did a lot of traveling from having to take a two hour bus ride to and from the airport to riding the metro all around Paris...we were very tired on Sunday night!

The last couple of weekends Clara, Hope and I have been TRAVELING!! We went to Brussels, Paris and we leave tomorrow for Greece. While in Brussels, we meet up with Hope's friend Claire and all of her friends. We had a great time exploring the city and trying all the different beers. During the day on Saturday we went to Burge which is a small medieval town about 30 minutes outside of Brussels.

Last night Clara, Hope, Jasper and I went to a buffet style place to eat dinner. It was actually pretty good! Then Clara Hope and I met up with Dan, Molly, Alisha to go to the Jazz Bar... After that Clara, Hope and I decided to leave and met up with Jasper and Mark at the House of Sizzle. Clara and I of course had to get our favorite strawberry margarita!

Hey mom...this is the boot that I like, but in black. What do you think about them? They have fur in the inside of them too!

Clara, Tracey, and me at Michael Collins watching Brenna and Annie singing some karokee!

On Saturday, we went to Siena and San Gimignano with Helen and our early Renaissance class. It was very tiring, but Clara and I loved both places. That night we had a party with some of our friends at SACI at one of their apartments....everyone brought food and drinks. After that we decided to go to sing some karokee at a bar called Michael Collins. Of course, Brenna and I had to represent the South with singing Sweet Home Alabama! We basically took over karokee and closed down the bar...all in all it was a great night!

This is the place where we buy our grocceries...it is very close to our apartment.

This is the front door to our apartment. There is a lot of construction going on next to it as you can see. Recently the noise is so bad and wakes up at early in the morning. Hopefully the construction will stop soon!

It has been raining in Florence for the last four days...I am getting really tired of it! This week had been pretty laid back because Clara and I both have started to get sick. On Tuesday we went out to eat for our one month anniversary to a restaurant called Giannino. It was good, but our waiter was very strange and keep asking us if we were drunk yet. haha The rest of the week we have just tried to stay out of the rain. Clara and I found a baguel place called Anna's and it has become our favorite spot before class. Tonight we are thinking about going out to eat to one the restaurants that Rachel Ray suggests... For some reason the last two days I have been extremely sick and have not been going out with Clara and Hope :(