There are a lot of dachshunds here. I mean A LOT! I love it. It makes me missing the girls a little less. The first night in Vernazza we ate at a restaurant right on the pier of the harbor. I ordered the seafood spaghetti, to which it had a whole "cuttlefish" on the top. I wasn't sure how to eat it, and luckily the locals were so nice that they split it open and showed me how to get to the meat. There were 4 men that eagerly came over to help us 3 ladies with t...

Today we woke up early in order to get to Chinque Terre. I recently had looked at a map and noticed that Pisa was not far out of the way, and this would be a good spot to see the leaning tower! We ventured out to get on our first train of the trip. We eventually figured it out, but Florence has a pretty large station so we made our train with only moments to spare (after we asked twice where it was... Who knew Italian would be so hard to read!?). We were able to ...

Today the 3 of us really felt the lack of sleep from the plane ride when our alarms went off... We had a planned tour of Florence on Segways that we needed to be at in less than an hour. Jen asked me to snooze... But I already had and she didn't hear it! Don't worry... I quickly made coffee and those girls perked right up! It was off to tour the city on our Segways. Jen was not so sure that this was what she really wanted to do but she was a trooper and quickly g...

First off, WE MADE IT! But before that, there were a few bumps in the road. Ok, maybe not "bumps" but some interesting things happened along the way. Lacey is apparently the problem child in Frankfurt, Germany airport. First off, she had water in her water bottle in security (say whaaa?! Not your first rodeo, rookie mistake). They immediately pulled her off to the side and confiscated her bag. The attendant carefully picked and prodded through... And found the bo...