109 Days of Italy: Living an even richer life in Monte Carlo

This past weekend my friend's dad took 5 of us to Monaco. We stayed in an amazing Hotel in Monte Carlo right behind the Casino. It is truly the richest place I have ever been to. I only played 5 Euro in the slot machine because I was scared and won 11 so that was exciting! One of my roommates won 105 Euro and then we proceeded to spend 99 of it on room service later that night. How you might ask does one spend 99 Euro on food..well lets just say a burger was 33 Euro. RIDICULOUS! I also tried snails and they were actually very good with the right type of sauce on them. We went to the Buddha Bar for dinner and drinks one night. (Google it its so cool).

I also learned a lot on this trip. For starters I thought Monte Carlo was in France..its not. Monaco is a country of its own even though its so tiny. They also have royalty there and we went on a tour of the castle. I wish I could have taken pictures to show you all the art work and pottery it was so beautiful in the castle. I would love to go to London to see the changing of the guards but since the pound is double the dollar I doubt I'll be going there..so instead we watched the changing of the guards in Monaco which was a much smaller ordeal but still fun.

The weather was great and I came home with a little bit of a tan!! The sad news is that its pants and sweatshirt weather finally here in Florence =[ I can't believe midterms are next week. Time is absolutely flying by. Tomorrow we are going to the Euro Chocolate Festival in Perugia on a field trip. Yep I'm sure it will have no educational value. We are going with nutrition but we haven't been learning about chocolate at all..and chocolate is not nutritious so..i'm not sure how this fits into the curriculum but I'm certainly not complaining!

After midterms its time for our big bus trip: Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris! YAYYY (I better get some sort of sleeping pills for this bus ride)