3-11-11

I had some extra time today to draw out our Christmas plans, and it made me even more excited when I saw it drawn out! Here it is, our tentative plan for Christmas as of now:

-Fly from Valencia to Milan on Dec. 7, take the rail to Genoa on the 8th, and board the cruise

-Take the cruise from Genoa to Olympia, Ashdod, Izmir, Athens, Rome, and back to Genoa. One major reason why I like this better than our original plans to take trains and planes everywhere, and stay in hostels every night is that this way, we get a day or two in between each city to just rest on the boat and chill out. Also, we get to go much farther that we originally were going to go, and get to experience more than just Europe itself.

-After our cruise, we land back in Genoa on the 19th, and since we are already in northern Italy, we will hit Pisa, Florence, and Venice, then use the rail pass to head down to Rome for a few days, probably 4 or 5.

-After we have been around Italy for probably close to a week or so, closer to 10 days, we will probably end up taking a Ryan flight up to Paris for New Years, and stay in Paris for a few days, take a day out to go to Caen where Normandy is, and make our way back to Sagunto.

The scariest part of this whole thing is that we have the rest of this week (friday) left, next week is a full week, the next week we have Thursday and Friday off, in which we, and a good percentage of the ACA students here, are heading to Milan, we have two full weeks after that, and we are sailing! Time is flying here, and I am really glad I am staying for more than just a quarter, because then it would already be time to come home, and I am not ready to leave yet because I want to be able to talk and understand so well when I leave, that no one could tell I am not a Spaniard.

Got to run to class...
Hasta la proxima vez...