Day 49. CINQUE TERRE.

Last day in Cinque Terre. Sad. It seems like every time we are getting ready to leave a city we all get super sad and want to spend more time there. We spent one last day basking on the beach and then we were getting ready to leave. Here are some pictures of the happy part of the day.

There were seriously cats everywhere in Italy. EVERYWHERE.

This is where the saga begins.

This was the longest night of my life. 

It was probably because I was up until 6 am, but still. 

Jenny says,  "Should we catch the 4:22 train of the 4:47 train?"

Of course we pick the 4:47 train. Little did we know that this decision would change the course of our even in ways that no one could imagine. I am going to tell you this saga in a series of bullet points. If I try to explain everything I will be writing for days. Here goes nothing.

-The 4:47 train never came
-The 5:15 train was 25 mins late
-We got to Le Spezia at 6:50
-We missed our train to Florence
-Jenny had to cry to the ticket lady in order to get our tickets changed
-We almost got on the wrong train
-We barely made the 7:10 train to Florence
-The train to Florence stopped in Pisa. It never started again.
-An Italian woman told us to get off the train and to go to platform 11
-We ran to platform 11
-Once again... we barely made the train
-We arrived in Florence at 10pm

SIDE NOTE. We were supposed to be in Venice by 10pm. Just saying.

-At the Florence train station we realized our train wasn't coming to that station
-We had to take a train to another station
-None of us have eaten dinner
-We get to the other train station there are creepy people trying to talk to us
-We have to wait 4 hours for our train
-It arrives at 1:47am
-The waiting room is freezing, we don't have jackets
-After hours of waiting the train comes
-There are no seats
-All 7 of us have to sit in the hall
-The train smells
-The people are super creepy
-Did I mention that the train smells?
-None of us got any sleep
-We arrived in Venice at 6 am
-The buses we need to take aren't running yet
-We have to wait for a cab
-It isn't big enough to fit all of us
-I am in the second cab
-We finally make it to the hotel at 6:30
-This is 8 hours after our planned arrival time
-We all cuddled and slept until noon

And that is the story about the train ride from hell. The bullet points really don't do it justice... but for my own sanity they will have to do.