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Hey guys, just wanted to check in and let you all know about our amazing weekend in Monaco. Thursday night we decided to go have dinner then a couple of drinks. Well as the responsible college students we are a couple turned into a few and we had a blast, except for the fact our train was leaving for Florence at 4:30 a.m.. Needless to say we were in a scramble to pack and make it there on time. We ended up being an hour early and after that hour of searching for the train we found it and we were on our way.

After three trains, nasty train stations, train bathrooms (A.K.A The Keg bathrooms), and no sleep we finally arrived in Monaco at about 4:30. We were greated by a Mercedes-Benz "taxi cab", because obviously the cabbies only drive really expensive cars, and we made it to our hotel. Friday night we ate dinner and went to sleep finally. Saturday was quite the adventure. We went walk around see our future yachts and shop.

We came across this restaurant/bar that overlooked the port and we made it our home from 1-9:30. By the time 9:30 rolled around the bartenders and servers loved us even after breaking a wine glass. We decided it was time to sleep and took the check. The $10 coronas left us with a bill of $316 which we happily paid because it was worth every penny. On the way home we decided it wasn't exactly time to sleep so we grabbed some wine and went relax at the hotel.

The next morning started off great and our first few trains went great, that is until we got on our last one. It was supposed to take us to Pisa Centrale where we would hop on another one to Florence. This wasn't the case obviously because the train stopped in La "something" and the conductor told us we had to get off because it was the last stop. After arguing for a few minutes we were booted off along with some new friends that were also studying abroad and a couple of other random confused people. We ran to another train that was leaving for Pisa and thought it would be fine, until we got to Pisa only to find out there was no more trains, only a bus coming an hour and a half later. The bus ride was TERRIBLE and we never thought we would be so happy to finally arrive back in Florence.

This was definitely a weekend to remember and I can thank Lee, Robert, Allie, and Hailee for making it bearable. Alright guys, hope you all enjoyed this.