Today we left for Cinque Terre. I
didn’t end up going to school because I wanted a personal sleep in day in
preparation for the beach. After we ate lunch, we headed to the station around
1 because our train left at 1:30.
Before getting on the train, I ate McDonald’s and it was extremely delicious. I
don’t even like McDonald’s when I’m at home but I was craving fast food. I
definitely need some Skyline in my life. Anyways, after we finally arrived in
Cinque Terre around 5:00, we went to
our hotel, put our bathing suits on and headed straight for the beach. The
weather was still amazing, even though it was late in the day. We hung out at
the beach for a couple hours and then went back to the hotel to get ready for
dinner. Morgan, Katie and I decided it would be more fun to not shower and just
start drinking our alcohol before dinner. While in Cinque Terre, we stayed in new
part of one of the two biggest towns, Monterosso, and ate dinner at a
restaurant in the older part of Monterosso. Since we were right on the coast,
seafood is obviously the specialty but I absolutely can’t handle seafood so
Chiara told the waiter that when we got to dinner so every time a big platter
came out for everyone else, I got my own special plate. My food was actually
amazing. For the first course, I had pasta and my second course was grilled
chicken and French fries. At dinner, we had these big jugs of wine and
apparently we heard Cinque Terre wine is really amazing… and it was. After all
our wine, seafood and pasta, the waiters brought out lemon sorbet for dessert
and it was AMAZING. It reminded me of the frozen lemonade at ATP. And then
after the lemon sorbet, the waiters brought out shots of limoncello which is
Italian liquor. I couldn’t handle taking a shot of it because I smelled it and
it was awful, so Katie and I passed ours off to Alexia and Kristi. After
dinner, we went to the one and only bar (called the American Bar, they must
know Americans like to drink). I had a drink called a Capiroska which was
strawberries, limes and vodka. It was delicious, but strong! Chiara had two and
was drunk, but that wasn’t counting all 6 glasses of wine she had at dinner. We
all made fun of her because she just kept drinking the wine and then at the end
of dinner we would ask her questions and she would be like “Oh I’m sorry, I just
had too much wine.” We made some new friends who are from around Cinque Terre
though so that was a lot of fun! There names were Roberto and Domenico. One of
their friends was named Niccolo but his nickname was Spigolino which apparently
means he is a bad driver and crashes into things a lot. Domenico told me I
should go say “Hey Spigolino!” to him, so we went inside the bar and I said
that and walked away and he just laughed at me and told me he would take me
driving in his car and he wouldn’t crash it. I obviously refused that one. Somewhere
in the night, Kristi wiped out (because she usually does) and she was on the
phone at the time and her phone went flying. I didn’t see her go down, but the
aftermath was hilarious!
