In Boca al Lupo...

...literally meaning "In the mouth of the wolf" or the Italian way to say good luck. Besides going to school every day and getting tons of art homework from Peter we get the awesome chance to travel around here in Italy. As of now, my favorite place in the whole world is a little town called Minori which is on the Almalfi coast. It is gorgeous! We stayed there for three days after walking frantically around Rome and it was a paradise. It is really picturesque with the mountains coming out of the water covered in little Italian homes, and the water is so clear that you can see 20 feet deep!

The picture of the boys is the contrada we saw marching on our first day in Siena. They just had the celebration for the winning of the Palio last week. Everybody was walking the streets very dressed up. The Porcupine was the winner of the first Palio and they had this huge feast and a live band, which I can hear clearly from my apartment. It's crazy because there is so much noise in the city every night. It's not a very big city first of all and there are always men chanting in the Piazza del Campo (which is the picture taken at night time), or there is loud music playing from who knows where. I wonder how it is for people who actually live within the historical walls.

Last Saturday we went to Lucca. It was yet another beautiful little town. There ended up being an antique market that day which filled the entire city, so we kind of got lost in that and then we rented bicycles! There is a city wall around the whole city and you can walk or ride bicycles on it! It was really fun and amazing to see the city from the wall. Getting home was a whole other story. We missed our first train and ended up running after every train after that... we missed them all. It must of been funny, or just interesting to see eight American girls chasing after trains. We made it home safe though, and had a lot of fun.