Hello again all,

As you can see I have not been able to upload any pictures or any kind of awesomeness because in my hostel they do not allow for picture uploading and I truly haven’t really had the time. But! A friend of friends did show up with his laptop and the hostel has free wireless internet so we may see some pictures coming soon.
A quick update is all I can do now. After my first couple of days in Italy we were already getting ready to set out for Barcelona to where we would spend New Years and the next 10 days. The day of was pretty relaxing mostly spent packing for our trip and watching a movie or 2 before leaving. We hitched a ride with family friend Fabianas soon to be Andrea all the way to Pisa airport where we were going to leave from. When we got to the airport were pleasntly surprised to see that Gui had already gotten all the tags for our bags and checked us into our flight. Saving Ryan over 259 euro in the process, he had a couple huge bags! So the waiting started……and went……and went…….and went…well are you starting to get the point? After arriving at the airport at around 4.30 we found that our flight was delayed over 3 HOURS!!! Why you ask! Because of all things….our plane was BROKEN. So now it is 12.30 in the morning over 7 hours after arriving at the airport and we finally get to board . . . first of course, thank you Gui! The flight was smooth and quiet until the landing of course in which we almost crashed into the ground with the hardest and loudest landing I had ever experienced in my life….but who cares we made it! We cheered on the plane for a successful landing got off, got our bags, bought our bus tickets and headed on our 1 hour bus ride into Barcelona.

The first day in Barcelona was great and a ton of fun…lots of pics to come soon! I can’t write much more as my limit is coming and I have a few other things to do.

I miss everyone tons and will talk to you all soon. Check for post cards!!

Ed