Eiffel tower or Leaning tower?

What a weekend!! We went to Pisa, Viareggio and Lucca this weekend. What beautiful places to visit!

We first went to Pisa for class, saw the Piazza del Duomo, Camposanto Monumentale, The Baptistry of the Catherdral of Pisa, which is freakin amazing because how it is built acoustically. We also saw obviously the Leaning Tower...which for some reason I guess because Pisa and Paris both start with a "P" I kept calling the Leaning Tower the Eiffel Tower...not sure why.

We did take every possible pic possible with the tower like any tourist does, holding it...pushing it, kicking it...or even birthing the tower if you are Michelle R. lol

It was a great day in Pisa and luckily the weather was nice to us and cleared up. After all of that we checked in our hostel in Pisa which was right next to the train station...I don't think you could have gotten any closer unless we lived in the train station. Kind of sketchy thing at first because no one answered the door bell...but once we got in the hostel/apartment was so nice!! It was just us so it was great plus we had our own kitchen!! So everyone was excited about that because we ended up cooking grilled chesses for dinner on Saturday night! After we checked into our hostel we went to Viareggio. What a nice little town, defiantly a great place to go when it is warmer. Yet we still found enjoyment in going around the town and looking at all the shops.

Well I had a video that was from inside the Baptistery...but it wont load for some reason. :(

There are a lot of shops around the board walk in Viareggio, plus the ocean was a very nice look, and so you know it is possible for it to start to snow on the beach...if you have never experience it is very weird! We enjoyed just walking around and going in and out of every shop possible plus getting a crepe and gelato!!

We went to Lucca the next day, a like 25 min train ride from Pisa. It was a great day! We had the sun shining and a clear blue sky!! We got to Lucca, got maps and started walking. We got to Lucca around like 1230 ish, so we of course started to look for places to eat. A couple of us weren't hungry a few grabbed a pizza and ate in the square and then the rest of us sat down and enjoyed a nice lunch. Which the place we went to makes HUGH calzones! After lunch we walked around the town to see it and go into every little shop. It was a nice town and a great day trip! The center of Lucca is inside a giant Roman wall so not to many cars are allowed inside. So walking around inside the center of Lucca is very easy nice. It was just a wonderful day and making the weekend so great!! After we were done in Lucca we made it back to Pisa for night. Once we arrived to the train station instead of going back to the Hostel we found a few mini-marts and went inside to buy some eggs! bread! and cheese! so we could make grill cheeses and scrambled eggs. The things you would miss!! We head back to the hostel after getting all the needed food items and began to cook!

The food was delicious!! So good! Was very nice to be able to cook for ourselves! Sunday morning we got up and went to go see the Leaning Tower again to take some better pics of it, plus to go and see the shops around the Tower to make sure we didn't miss anything. We started to head back home about 1130 ish which got us into Florence around 1230. Being in Florence we decided to do some shopping before going on to Castiglion, so we all went off in Florence to do shopping.

The weather and time has defiantly started to change, because more tourist are starting to show up...which kind of gets annoying because it makes everything more crowded...but nicer because more shops are beginning to open more which means for places to buy stuff. Seems to me that more shops with leather are beginning to open which is great!! We walked around our normal places in Florence, I finally bought me a scarf, and a new shirt and pull over sweater. I am very excited about that, around like 4ish we decided we were done and finally headed back to home! To only realize we have to unpack and then repack for Venice/spring break this week!!!

When I write again I will have much to say for it will have been two weeks, a trip to Venice, and a trips to Venice, Florence and Rome with my Mom and Sister!! Yea!!!

Ciao!