Monday, March 21, 2016

Switch Blades can't go on Airplanes? PART UNO

Some people go to Florida, some people go to gulf shores, and others take a tour through Italy while eating nothing but Gelato and swimming in 50 degree water while climbing on ancient Roman ruins.

That was the Spring break I decided to have a part in. We traveled through Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples, and Sorrento. One of the best 10 day experiences of my life. Of course, that's not the only thing I'm going to tell you about spring break. The details begin now:

The first day of travel, (and I'm not talking about traveling around Italy, I'm talking about just trying to make our way to the airport in Germany) had quite a few speed bumps. We got there and tried to check in but apparently we were supposed to do that online. Because we didn't do that online, we had to pay an extra 50 euro. Someone on our trip forgot to take his switch blade out of his backpack, but since it wasn't an extra bottle of fluid or forgetting to take his laptop out of his case, all he received was a friendly "don't do that again." Once we got through security, our plane was boarding so it was a good think we had gotten there when we did. That same person unfortunately picked the worst spot to sit on in the plane. He looked under his seat and saw a stash of lighters. Why someone would have a stash of lighters on the plane is beyond me but we had a huge moral issue on our hand, should we tell the flight attendant and face some sort of consequences since he was already caught with a switch blade? Or just continue to sit there and hope no one notices until we were long gone. Well we didn't have to make a decision because they all fell out of his chair and the person behind us found them and just kept them. Good enough for us right?

So we made it to Milan and it was great. The place we stayed at though kinda smelled like cat poop though which was kind of unfortunate but after a while, you got used to it. We walked on the Duomo of Milan, went to the mall that consisted of Versace and Louis Vuitton so of course we bought gelato instead. We also saw a McDonalds that had a bouncer. I mean hey whatever works right?

The amount of people who try to sell you things on the street is ridiculous. Where they get all the merchandise from is beyond me but they definitely have stashes and want you to buy everything they have. They target Americans for sure. I just wanna know where they get all of their selfie sticks, sunglasses, adaptors, toys, and everything else they have from. '

We took a 5 hour train ride to Florence and basically just explored at our leisure. We took in the landscape and the Duomo of Florence. It was a weird to experience the guards outside of all the important artifacts holding machine guns ready to fire at need be. My dad said it was because they all have terrible shots.

Florence was also the site of Michael Angelo's David. For those who don't realize what that is, it's a giant sculpture depicting the Bible's David in the nude. Italy marketed off this poor sculpture in everyday shape and form. Aprons, shirts, shorts, flags, all having this poor statue's penis all over it. But hey if it sells it sells.

After Florence we headed to Rome, the place where we all spent the most money.

PART 2

1 comment:

  1. Who would have ever thought you can't take them on an airplane?

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