Not ready for kids...

Uh oh, I missed another day's blog. Not good e-world, not good.
 
The girls and I just got in from another day of shopping. Because it is our day off, our original intention was to get pedicures but we couldn't find the place. So instead we decided to go to this makeup store and buy the stuff to do it ourselves. We each grabbed a pizza and some beer and made our way back to our apartment. It's been a nice day bonding with the girls-so happy with the friends I've made along the way.
 
It's day 3 of my cold and it hasn't started to get better yet. I've been taking Buckley's everynight so I can feel rested when I have to wake up at 6am but I'm still finding it hard to push through the day. The exciting things were doing DOES help however.
 
Which is a great segway into what we did yesterday. We took a day trip to Lucca and walked around the cute (and a little Tim Burton-esk) town. We then rented bicycles and rode around the city. It was a blast! One of my favourite things we had done all trip. It was an amazing day, feeling the warm breeze as I rode. It was relaxing and beautiful. Everyone enjoyed it. Our butts are sore today however as the seats weren't very padded. We enjoyed lunch in a park and made our way back to the train station.
 
The train ride home was not as enjoyable however. It was hot and everytime we would go through a tunnel all the windows would shut because of the pressure. Then it got worse. As we were all enjoying our late afternoon nap, a screaming baby and even more obnoxious girl with their parents arrived on our train. The irritation with the screaming baby is obvious, the girl on the other hand...
She began by walking the length of the seats..back and forth...back and forth. Stopping at who ever was awake. Not talking. Just stopping and staring. Like she forgot how to f*cking blink. But can we say something?! NooooOOOOooooo, kids are so innocent and cute...
So we all make eye contact with each other, agreeing this child needs to get clotheslined and continuing to do our best to ignore the spawn of satan. Apparently she felt she was god damn annoying enough because she started laughing and running back and fourth past our seats. Don't kids nap anymore?!
The little turd would run by your seat, most likely bump parts of you- which was true in my case - and run back. All the while laughing her little shitty diaper off. Where were the parents you may ask yourself, which is what we thought. Well Mom was trying(I think) to calm the baby who sounded VERY similar to the home economics baby that was set to "crack baby" my friend was given in grade 11. The father was at one end of the little monster running the aisle. Yah, that's right, buddy was ENCOURAGING the behaviour. The seemingly common census was that we all wanted to take the kid and punt her at her father. Bad week to leave my horse tranquilizers at home.
 
Anyhoo, we ended up going to a gay bar last night . We arrived and the sign for the bar read "Yag Bar". Hilarious. (read yag backwards)
It was actually an intense situation because to get into the bar, you had to enter through one pair of automatic doors but couldn't enter through the next until the automatic doors were closed, all the while another gent acted as a sheep herder with us. It was a fun place to see but we didn't stay long. We left and started to explore the city until we decided we were going to get another bottle of wine and play cards all together. It was hilairous playing cards but eventually the boys went home and the girls went to bed.
 
Tommorrow I get to present about the Venus of Urbino - the last of the Venus' I got to talk about. I actually enjoyed having a bit of a theme. Today I'm going to rest up and go back to having some girl time.
 
Shine bright...
 
Love & Kleenex,
V.
 
Post Script:
We have found (thanks to Laura and Daniel) the BEST gelato we've had. Today I had banana and watermelon and even just thinking about that watermelon gelato makes me want a tub of it. Yummmm.