I love life. Waking up everyday to a whole new world of possibilities is the best part of my day. Meeting new people and experiencing new places is what I live for, and the purpose of this blog is to help me remember my adventures, and to inspire others to try something new. Plus this blog is a great way to keep friends and family up to date <3 I would like to thank all of the wonderful people in my life for helping me through the past several weeks. Although thing have been difficult, Nemo and I have successfully moved home and are happily in Minnesota. Huge thanks to my dad for driving from Minnesota to New York, New York to Rhode Island (twice), then back to Minnesota. We managed to pack up all of my belongings and drive home in a pickup truck and trailer thanks to him.
For everyone at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, I miss you and hope that work is going well! You all do amazing things, and I am proud to have worked there. Thank you to those who helped me pack and for throwing me such an amazing going away party!
This is the first post in over a year and I would not have picked a more fun trip: ITALY! Bryn, a fantastic friend from work, and I decided to travel to this beautiful country together for a ten day tour. Neither of us are planners so we knew right off the bat that this would be an adventure. She bought her plane ticket, we booked an AirBnB experience to go kayaking off the Amalfi coast, and eagerly awaited our travel date. Two days before the trip Sena (my sister) decided to join us.
Sena and I decided to fly to Washington DC on for the weekend to be ready for our flight to Rome on Sunday. We made it to DC late on Saturday and immediately went to sleep. Sunday morning was filled with brunch and walking through the monuments. We had a great time sight seeing before heading to the airport in the afternoon. After waiting around the airport, we were told that the flight to Rome was full (we were flying standby). Fast forward five minutes, Sena found a flight to Geneva Switzerland with open seats. We had to jog to make it to the gate on time, but we managed to board right as the doors to the plane were closing.
The plane ride itself was smooth buttttt neither Sena nor I managed to sleep at all, so you can imagine how we were doing going through customs at 8am in Geneva. After sleepily figuring out how the train system worked, we decided to go out an explore the city. The countryside surrounding Geneva was gorgeous. The city itself is probably beautiful as well, but we the rain put a damper on our parade. Here are a few pictures of what we did see in Geneva!
We carried our backpacks through the rainy streets of Geneva but the jet lag, heavy backpacks, lack of rain jackets, and absence of knowledge of Switzerland spurred us to retreat back to the airport after two hours. (During our short duration in Geneva, Sena and I managed to set off an alarm in a grocery store and look like fools for not speaking french).
Sena and I bought a plane ticket to Rome in the afternoon, and arrived in Rome around 6pm. Bryn had flown into Rome a little earlier in the day; we met up with her at the AirBnb, lounged for a bit, and freshened up. Italians like to enjoy dinner later than Americans, after 7:30, so we were right on time. Despite battling exhaustion, nothing was going to stop us from enjoying a delicious Italian meal with a liter of wine. Dinner was delicious! Bryn had gnocchi to die for. Sena had spaghetti that was tossed in a roll of flaming cheese before serving. My meal was filled with truffles and cheese. Safe to say that all three of us were in fatty heaven. After dinner we retreated to the AirBnb and immediately knocked out.
