Saturday was Haley's 20th birthday! We got to Florence just in time for dinner. We had some delicious spaghetti, and pizza with red wine. Then we drank and went to the club. The club was a lot of fun but no one was there but our group. Still we had a blast! The next morning in was back to the bus early for a walking tour of Florence. It was definitely pretty there but we didn't have enough time to fully enjoy it and get a vibe for the city. We saw the fam...

Switzerland is my favorite country so far. London may have been more fun but Switzerland was the most beautiful scenery I've ever seen. It's amazing the different temperatures you can go through just by going to the top of the mountain. Which is exactly which we did. We took the train to the highest station in Europe. I can't explain how beautiful and calming the view was. You have to see it for yourself in order to understand. At the top of the mountain we w...

This past couple days have been, by FAR, the best time of my trip in Europe. On Thursday June 16 we took a plane from Mitilini, Greece to London! We stayed with an older couple that we met at our hotel in Greece. Edwin and Lesley. They were the nicest people in the world. Edwin is a old "dirty minded bloke" and a history buff and Lesley was a great woman although we didn't get to have much time with her Edwin picked us up from the airport and took us on a littl...

Hello! I have done so much since last time I wrote. I know I say this every time but it's always true! I'll begin with the visit from the Afghanistan refugees. This was one of the most memorable days of the trip. There were 15-20 young refugee boys (ages 15-30) whom visited hotel Votsala for a night. We had two translators, one was Sophia translating from english to greek for the boys and then the 2nd was one of the boys translating from greek to arabic. ...

WOW! once again so much has happened since my last blog over a week ago. To begin, we left for Athens on Wednesday. We went to the port in the hotels handy-dandy minivan. While approaching the port our car load was joking about how awesome it would be if the HUGE boat at the harbor was our boat to the mainland. Sure enough as soon as we got there we found out it really was our boat and we got a room of 4 to sleep in over night! It was a large ferry but not a bi...