Adios Barcelona! I miss you already! The three of is had so much fun during our two days in Barcelona. We arrived early evening on Wednesday and left this morning for Lyon. During our first night we went out for tapas. Tapas are the best thing that's ever happened, actually 1€ tapas are. We had so much fun trying all the different tapas. After our first tapas experience we got Churros and hot chocolate with cream- YUM! After our night of eating after 12 hours o...

Breakfast in Rome, lunch in Monte Carlo, dinner in Nice. Are we jet setters yet? Monte Carlo was one of a kind. I've never seen anything like it. Prada, Celine, Cartier, the gang was all there! I lost count of Ferarris after starting to count Bentleys and then lost track when cars I've never even seen before started driving by. Monte Carlo is it's own little world, and I can't wait to go back when I don't have to carry around a hiking bag all day long and instea...

Roma, Roma, Roma! We had so much fun in Rome. We arrived early yesterday morning and hit the ground running. We dropped our bags off at the hotel, grabbed our last and third whole pizza each and then hopped on the metro to the Vatican Walls. We waited over two hours to get in. There was an awesome gelato place near the line where we all took turns getting our comes. The wait was so worth it, a school field trip even took us in so we didn't get harassed by the ve...

Ciao Firenze! I can't believe we are already leaving Florence this morning to spend the night in Rome. Florence was amazing! It was a little grey and rainy for the first part of the day, but that's nothing compared to what we see everyday in Ireland. We began our walk to the David, the Duomo and the Ponte Vecchio. We were about fifteen minutes into our walk and it really started pouring, you would think "oh that's so awful," but it was actually perfect because ...

Happy birthday to the most glamorous woman I know! I am sorry I could not celebrate with you yesterday, but we will make up for it this summer when I'm home! I hope you had the best day, you deserve it! I love you all the way from Italy and back! Thank you for giving me the world. Love, Ally