My lovely friend Allie FINALLY turned 20 today. About time. It was hard to concentrate during classes knowing tonight was going to be a celebration.
Before I get to the night's festivities, I should mention- I went to Intro to Florence today. Go me.
That class is going to be terrible. If it wasn't for the field trips every Wednesday I would drop it here and now. Its the biggest class in Florence, yet she only talks to the first 2 rows. So the rest of us in the back just sit, talk, and cruise Facebook since she hands us her powerpoints and just reads off the projector. I love old ladies who still teach, they make learning SO fun. Not.
When class finally finished, we had lunch and spent the rest of the day doing homework and applying to internships so that after dinner we could go out and have some birthday fun.
All afternoon the only thing we spoke of was wanting crepes. We had made the birthday plans to be: take Allie to $1 gelato and then go to the Shot Bar. However, we haven't had crepes since Berlin and it has been sounding more and more delicious every day.
After dinner, we met the guys and walked to the Ponte Vecchio to get some delicious gelato. While we were there Gemo bought the cheesecake Allie has been eyeing for like a week. Hello bar snack. As we were walking back, we kept checking the cafes in hopes of finding one that also sold crepes. Right as our hopes began to waver, Erin spotted a sign inside of a gelato place advertising hot nutella crepes. We all split two, and it was even more delicious than the ones we had in Germany. Because we had taken so long to get to gelato, and the detour to get crepes, we were almost an hour late getting to the bar (where we had people waiting for us).
As we were passing the duomo, almost to the bar, we see Felicia running towards us from up the street. When she got to us we realized she was crying, and when we looked up Fallon was also running to us, tears streaming down her face. Between their shaken cries we deciphered that they had been walking back from the Ponte Vecchio when two guys started following them. They even followed them into a gelato place. Good for the girls though for running in the direction of the duomo. Even at night it is the most populated area of the city. I wonder what would have happened had we not shown up...
Erin, Audrey and Gabby took them home. They live on Cavour so it was literally a 2 minute walk. Allie, Gemo, Conner and I went to rest of the way to the bar, a solid 2 blocks from where we were. When we showed up everyone else was already there. And so the birthday celebration began. If gelato and crepes weren't enough sugar for one night, our group of 20 people split the cheesecake. Lesson learned: when an Italian cafe/gelateria advertises cheesecake, it is not what we Americans think of as cheesecake. It was still really good, but just not what we expected.
The other girls showed up 10 minutes later, and the party finally began. Erin and I bailed around midnight, only because we have to wake up tomorrow for an 8:30AM museum tour.
Happy Birthday Allie!
Tuesday, September 20th
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