Saturday April 9th_ Oh look, a talking squirrel!

We awake in Pisa. The Leaning Tower of Pizza...the tower does indeed lean, but no pizza in sight. However, we did find the world's most delicious and enormous grapes here. We highly recommend them. We, and our grapes, headed to the train station to go to Florence. We arrive to find hostel heaven: an indoor pool, steam room, sauna, gym, rooftop terrace and bar, huge restaurant, full English breakfast offered until noon, fluffy towels, blowdryers, nicely decorated dorms catered to girls, and a welcome pack of necessities. First things first, book another night here, giving us 3 nights total in Florence. We made a friend, 20 year old Sam from California who has been studying in Rome. She is a sweetheart and we drank plenty of red wine (thanks hostel employee for giving kel a free bottle) over pasta dishes from the hostel restaurant. It was Saturday so we figured we should explore some nightlife so we polished off our wine in our dorm as we put on makeup and Sam complained about feeling grungy and having nothing to wear despite the fact she was adorned and accessorized to the nines and has a huge apartment in Rome....if she only knew. We were ready to go but our discussion about good spots to head to in Florence turned onto a mini book group and we ended up sharing good and bad books and talking about our favorites for hours...nerd alert?! By this point it was a little late for nightlife but the right time for our red wined peepers to close for a great nights sleep. Can't wait until tomorrow when we will venture out into FLORENCE :)