4/12/2010

Highlights of my Spring Break

Naughty/Interesting Things That Took Place Over Spring Break:

1. We jumped a fence in Pompeii so we could take pictures of a blocked off area.
2. We went into a garden at Capri that was clearing marked private property because the gate was open.
3. We crashed another hotels sitting area and drank boxes of wine in Rome.
4. We got kicked out of that same sitting area a few days later when we were homeless and ended up eating our grocery store dinners on the side of the road like hobos.
5. We slept on the freezing cold floor at the Roman airport with the homeless people.
6. We saw the Coliseum- enough said.
7. We rode camels at the pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
8. We wore were sometimes asked to wear headdresses at the mosques we visited, which we did out of respect for the religion because we were in THEIR holy place, even though we felt a little degraded as women.
9. Everyone in the hotel we stayed in at Cairo knew who we were, and a few even told us they were sad to see us go.
10. Chelsea grew very sick while we were still in Cairo, and now I am incredibly ill as well, hoping it is not hookworm or malaria or something else unpleasant that can be contracted in Africa.
11. We were too scared to cross the street (Egyptians drive CRAZY, way worse than the Greeks or the Italians) or go outside again from the heckling and following of Egyptian men so we had the bell boy go get us food.
12. We slept in a mixed room at a hostel in Rome with two tiny Asians boys that were asleep by 9- hence or crashing the other hotels sitting area.
13. We realized how much we love Greece, and how homesick we were for it!!

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