"All of my life, where have you been, I wonder if I'll ever see you again..."
I'm definitely not going to be able to watch World Trade Center. Every time I see a commercial for the movie I get chills and a bit choked up. I have a hard time looking at the images from September 11th so I know I would never be able to sit in the theatre and watch the movie. It's good that the movie was made and everything but I think it's going to be one of those that I'll have to wait for it to come out on DVD and watch it in the privacy of my room so I can cry as hard as I want. I hate that-- crying in movie theaters. I hate leaving the theatre after I've cried and worry that my face is all red and streaky with mascara all over my face.
So I promised that I would write about the trip and I know it's much later but I got lazy so deal lol. So, we flew from JFK to Frankfurt, Germany and then caught the connecting flight to Barcelona. The Barcelona airport was more like a mall than an airport. It was crazy how many clothing stores there were in that airport. Anyway, we went to baggage claim and found that they lost one of our bags which was a major pain in the ass (we ended up getting it back the 4th day of our 7 day cruise *mutters* bastards). It was the bag with all our fancy clothes for the formal dinner and whatever. We were actually lucky though. One couple on our flight lost all of their bags. The cruise washed their clothes every night and gave them a couple free t-shirts and whatnot since they only had the clothes on their backs. Every single person on our flight lost at least 1 piece of luggage because of the plane change in Germany.
Anyway, the boat was beautiful and huge and the food was awesome. I ate until I felt like I would explode the first night and passed out. I thought that I would have major jet lag but I was pretty okay because I went to sleep at like 9 o'clock lol. The first port we stopped at was Marseille, France. In Marseille we did a bus tour. It was a really tiny city but the view was beautiful. The water was really clear and there were islands off the coast. There was this market that the bus dropped everyone off at for like an hour but the people were kind of rude. I now understand why the French have such a bad reputation lol.
We got back on the boat when the tour was done and just laid out in the sun for a few hours. There was this perfect spot on like the side deck where the wind blew really hard so it never got too hot when you laid there. It was awesome I could lay there and drink for days and be happy. From that day on we were laying in that spot after the tours every day.
The next port the ship stopped at was Civitecchia, Italy which is like a 45 minute drive away from Rome so all the tours were for Rome. There were tours that were like 10 hours long! There was no way that I would be out there for 10 hours nu uh. We did one that was 4.5 and that was definitely long enough for us. The bus took us to Vatican city and you got to walk around and take pictures and whatnot (not see the pope because that was only with the long tour since it was a 3 hour wait). Then you took a driving tour around Rome and we saw the Coliseum, the first Roman “mall,” the area where the private and public baths used to be, the park, and random historical marks along the way. Our tour guide was really good and told us all this interesting and random facts. Like one of the buildings near the Coliseum had this green awning on it and apparently it was Napoleon’s mother’s apartment. So that was cool. Rome was another port where people boarding and this was when the flock of Italians came on the ship. It was so funny because you would see these teeny tiny Italian women who you could tell were on a constant diet and their HUGE husbands. This was also the first night that I went out and met people and I met some pretty cool people. I became friends with a couple of the Italian guys and it was hilarious because they didn’t really speak English but kind of spoke Spanish. So a couple of the girls on the boat and I would try to speak broken Spanish and English to them. It always took forever to say anything to them.
The next port was Naples. Instead of doing a tour around Naples (we looked around the city by ourselves later) we took a tour of Pompeii. Pompeii was pretty cool at first but after a while it became tedious. It gets disgustingly hot over there and there is hardly any shade. After a while everything looks the same so if I ever went back (which I doubt, it’s something that you really only need to see once) I would only be there for an hour at most-not 2.5. But it was definitely a cool experience. Naples was cool too but I’m just not into Italian fashion that much. Plus it’s really expensive and I just didn’t think the clothes were worth the price. But that was the case everywhere we went and now I understand why when Europeans come to the States they buy clothes like crazy.
The next port was Malta. In Malta we visited the “Silent City” which was this really cool like medieval city that was completely made out of Lyme stone. The stone seemed to suck up like all the sound so even though there were tons of tour groups in the place you couldn’t hear them. It was pretty cool to see it because I’ve always been interested by the whole medieval period in history. The next day (Thursday) was a day at sea. So I just hung out with the people that I’d met on the boat and relaxed. We all needed the break from walking around everywhere.
Next we went to Mallorca which was a really cute island. In Mallorca we saw yet another church. The churches are really ornate and beautiful (well, sometimes gaudy) but it gets boring after a while. You can only see churches so many times. We also saw a bullfighting ring. It was kind of gross because there had been a fight recently and there was blood all over the sand. There were footprints (human) that led from inside the ring to the hospital that was nearby. Mallorca is famous for its pearls so of course my parents were all over the pearl shop that the tour stopped at. They bought so much jewelry on this trip it was crazy. This was the last day of the cruise for most so of course we all stayed up and hung out on the deck all night.
The cruise ended in Barcelona were we took yet another tour (most didn’t, they had their flights home but we did since we stayed a few extra days in Barcelona). The most interesting thing by far was this HUGE church. It’s called La Sagrada Familia Church and they have been building it for decades and expect to finish it in like 50 years. It was by far the coolest church because it wasn’t a typical church architecturally. Seriously, go look up that church it’s really effing cool. So we stayed in Barcelona for 3 days and just did the tourist thing and the shopping thing for a while. The only problem with Barcelona for me was that my allergies were killing me. It was the only place we visited that I had problems with my allergies though which was good.
Phew *wipes forehead* that was the trip. That was a ridiculously long entry and I applaud anyone who actually reads it all.
So I promised that I would write about the trip and I know it's much later but I got lazy so deal lol. So, we flew from JFK to Frankfurt, Germany and then caught the connecting flight to Barcelona. The Barcelona airport was more like a mall than an airport. It was crazy how many clothing stores there were in that airport. Anyway, we went to baggage claim and found that they lost one of our bags which was a major pain in the ass (we ended up getting it back the 4th day of our 7 day cruise *mutters* bastards). It was the bag with all our fancy clothes for the formal dinner and whatever. We were actually lucky though. One couple on our flight lost all of their bags. The cruise washed their clothes every night and gave them a couple free t-shirts and whatnot since they only had the clothes on their backs. Every single person on our flight lost at least 1 piece of luggage because of the plane change in Germany.
Anyway, the boat was beautiful and huge and the food was awesome. I ate until I felt like I would explode the first night and passed out. I thought that I would have major jet lag but I was pretty okay because I went to sleep at like 9 o'clock lol. The first port we stopped at was Marseille, France. In Marseille we did a bus tour. It was a really tiny city but the view was beautiful. The water was really clear and there were islands off the coast. There was this market that the bus dropped everyone off at for like an hour but the people were kind of rude. I now understand why the French have such a bad reputation lol.
We got back on the boat when the tour was done and just laid out in the sun for a few hours. There was this perfect spot on like the side deck where the wind blew really hard so it never got too hot when you laid there. It was awesome I could lay there and drink for days and be happy. From that day on we were laying in that spot after the tours every day.
The next port the ship stopped at was Civitecchia, Italy which is like a 45 minute drive away from Rome so all the tours were for Rome. There were tours that were like 10 hours long! There was no way that I would be out there for 10 hours nu uh. We did one that was 4.5 and that was definitely long enough for us. The bus took us to Vatican city and you got to walk around and take pictures and whatnot (not see the pope because that was only with the long tour since it was a 3 hour wait). Then you took a driving tour around Rome and we saw the Coliseum, the first Roman “mall,” the area where the private and public baths used to be, the park, and random historical marks along the way. Our tour guide was really good and told us all this interesting and random facts. Like one of the buildings near the Coliseum had this green awning on it and apparently it was Napoleon’s mother’s apartment. So that was cool. Rome was another port where people boarding and this was when the flock of Italians came on the ship. It was so funny because you would see these teeny tiny Italian women who you could tell were on a constant diet and their HUGE husbands. This was also the first night that I went out and met people and I met some pretty cool people. I became friends with a couple of the Italian guys and it was hilarious because they didn’t really speak English but kind of spoke Spanish. So a couple of the girls on the boat and I would try to speak broken Spanish and English to them. It always took forever to say anything to them.
The next port was Naples. Instead of doing a tour around Naples (we looked around the city by ourselves later) we took a tour of Pompeii. Pompeii was pretty cool at first but after a while it became tedious. It gets disgustingly hot over there and there is hardly any shade. After a while everything looks the same so if I ever went back (which I doubt, it’s something that you really only need to see once) I would only be there for an hour at most-not 2.5. But it was definitely a cool experience. Naples was cool too but I’m just not into Italian fashion that much. Plus it’s really expensive and I just didn’t think the clothes were worth the price. But that was the case everywhere we went and now I understand why when Europeans come to the States they buy clothes like crazy.
The next port was Malta. In Malta we visited the “Silent City” which was this really cool like medieval city that was completely made out of Lyme stone. The stone seemed to suck up like all the sound so even though there were tons of tour groups in the place you couldn’t hear them. It was pretty cool to see it because I’ve always been interested by the whole medieval period in history. The next day (Thursday) was a day at sea. So I just hung out with the people that I’d met on the boat and relaxed. We all needed the break from walking around everywhere.
Next we went to Mallorca which was a really cute island. In Mallorca we saw yet another church. The churches are really ornate and beautiful (well, sometimes gaudy) but it gets boring after a while. You can only see churches so many times. We also saw a bullfighting ring. It was kind of gross because there had been a fight recently and there was blood all over the sand. There were footprints (human) that led from inside the ring to the hospital that was nearby. Mallorca is famous for its pearls so of course my parents were all over the pearl shop that the tour stopped at. They bought so much jewelry on this trip it was crazy. This was the last day of the cruise for most so of course we all stayed up and hung out on the deck all night.
The cruise ended in Barcelona were we took yet another tour (most didn’t, they had their flights home but we did since we stayed a few extra days in Barcelona). The most interesting thing by far was this HUGE church. It’s called La Sagrada Familia Church and they have been building it for decades and expect to finish it in like 50 years. It was by far the coolest church because it wasn’t a typical church architecturally. Seriously, go look up that church it’s really effing cool. So we stayed in Barcelona for 3 days and just did the tourist thing and the shopping thing for a while. The only problem with Barcelona for me was that my allergies were killing me. It was the only place we visited that I had problems with my allergies though which was good.
Phew *wipes forehead* that was the trip. That was a ridiculously long entry and I applaud anyone who actually reads it all.