Weekend Excursion: Pisa and Cinque Terre

So it's late, but I need to remember to keep this thing updated!
This is going to be short, sweet and to the point but a summary of my weekend none the less.

This weekend was one of API's excursions that is included in our program. We went to Pisa and Cinque Terre this weekend and they were both phenomenal. I will start with Pisa, which we visited first. We took a bus to Pisa and got a tour (that lasted a little too long.. so we ended up ditching and getting pizza, hah!) We got the obligatory picture next to the building itself as well.

Fun Fact: (One of the only facts I retained from the tour...) the leaning tower of Pisa was made by like 3 or 4 ..or 5? architects over a span of like 200 years (or something like that). Isn't that just cray? Yeah, it's cray.

ANYWAY.

Next we went to one of the nearby beaches where the free beach was literally a sliver of area compared to the gigantic mass that was the beach. Most of API was hangin in the water having fun. An italian man proceeds to get some American chicks by pulling 2 dead jellyfish out of the water. I, however, was not falling for this tactic. I did not want to get near those things, even if they were dead. And let's be real here folks, these were not some east coast jellies here. Let's just get an idea of what it looks like...

Yeah. 

SO moving on...

We leave the beach and head to the hotel close by, have a pretty decent dinner and then go into the town of Lucca. It is the cutest little thing you have ever seen in your life. There are pretty much no tourists which was so nice. All locals and it was just beautiful. The whole town is engulfed by walls that were built a really long time ago, and they've made the top of the walls into a park now where people can go and walk around. We wandered around the town from 9 until 11 at night and had a quite grand stroll.

Also, I got to ride an ostrich:

As you can see, I was pretty happy about that. 

The next day we explored the five lands, known as "Cinque Terre" (pronounced cheen-kway ter-ray) Make sure you roll them R's ! ;) We unfortunately landed quite a cloudy day but the scenery refused to be anything but breathtaking. We went on a hike, then proceeded to visit each (except for one) of the five lands via various means of transportation. One of the lands, we stopped to eat and got a lot of time to hang out. I saw my first Italian boy and just died right there, he was so beautiful. :P (oh yeah, the food was pretty good too)  

The boat ride ended the day as we strolled off, exhausted from our adventures of the weekend and proceeded to board the bus back home to Firenze.

Ciao for now :)