In which I am Extremely Spontaneous

Soooo in the past... 56 hours, I have probably been the most spontaneous that I ever have been in my entire life.

To begin with, on Thursday, I wandered into the first hair cuttery I found and decided to chop my hair short (see Facebook picture, I was excited) by an Italian woman who spoke no English (I was so thrilled that I could actually express myself in Italian well enough to get the cut I liked, even if I did pretty much point at a picture). The same day the four of us pretty much decided that we wanted to go to Elba for the weekend, and had sort of figured out how to get out there, but were running into issues about when to head out.

Friday, during our coffee break, Richard, the teacher of the second class, calls and cancels class so we can get out to Elba earlier. Viv, Jane, and their friend David had already made reservations at a hotel in Florence and were just going to head out there earlier, meanwhile I was dying to get out to Elba early and actually have a full day there. Mike was less than keen on the idea, and said that he couldn't make the 130 train, which was pretty disappointing, but I figured it was alright. I was kind of pissed off because I've done the go out for a day and wish you had more time there kind of thing. I headed over to use the internet, and Mike caught up with me and told me he changed his mind. So we headed home, threw some stuff into bags, and booked it to the train station. We got tehre with plenty of time to catch the train, and ended up in Elba by 730. We had made no reservations at all, so we literally walked into the first place that we found in Portoferraio and got a room for the night. We walked around the marina and ended up stumbling upon a really cute little place where we were literally the only people in the restaurant. It was soooo gooooood. I ate octopus and crab and it was delicious. I ordered things without knowing what they are, and it was exciting and different and just awesome.

The next morning we woke up super early, grabbed a quick breakfast and hopped an early bus to Marina del Campo, and found another hotel/camper thing and spent the entire day on the beach. I got sunburnt but it was fantastic. Jane, Viv and David decided to stay in Portoferraio, which was a little disappointing, but that was ok, we ended up meeting up with them the next day. We spent most of Sunday trying to figure out how to get home, and ended up in Siena just in time for dinner.

Over all, this past weekend was simply fantastic. As for me, it is now time for me to go and buy some jeans. Wheeeee!

A presto!