When in Rome...

So lots to catch yall up on , for internet is a luxury for us poor backpackers. On our last day in Nice, France we went scuba diving on the coast and it was definitly an adventure. If you call throwing up over the side of the boat about 15 or more times a wonderful adventure, then I guess you would have had a great time. Dont get me wrong, the coast was absolutly beautiful from the boat. It was just the waves that killed me. For some reason it did not cross my mind that we would need to take a boat out to the sea in order to scuba dive so I did not take my motion sickness medicine. Well I definitly learned a lesson. The waves were incredibly rough, and I started getting sick just as the scenery became more beautiful by the minute. The next thing I know, Im over the side of the boat puking up all my breakfast and more. Yah...it wasnt pretty. So basically I was puking my guts out until they could squeeze me into my wet suit (they didnt take my overly sized butt into consideration when giving me my wetsuit size) and put me into the water to scuba dive. Once I was in the water my stomach became better. The instructor was able to put my oxygen tank on and put the goggles on me. I was sort of nervous because I did not want to trust my oxygen tank. Once we started getting deeper below the surface of the water, I started trusting the tank more and I just enjoyed the underwater world. It was beautiful below the water- we went about 25 feet or so under the surface and we just swam around looking at different colored fish and coral. It was one of the most incredible things I have ever done...it was even freaky that I could breathe underwater! After I came up from my dive, I got sick all over again and I was getting sick all the way until we got to shore. Josh had a wonderful time though! So to sum things up quick, we left Nice that day to take the train to Genoa, Italy. Honestly I could go into detail about Genoa, but really, theres not much to go into detail about except the fact that we spent another hour or so trying to find our hostel. Probably the greatest part of our trip thus far happened after Genoa, Italy when we got to the Cinque Terre, Italy. It was honestly the most beautiful place I have ever seen in my life. The Cinque Terre are the 5 villages before the big city La Spezia that are on the coast. Each village has its own cliff that its on and the view from each village is amazing. All the houses are colorful and clumped together surrounding the sea. The cliffs have wine vineyards sprawled all along them. When we got to our village, the scene literally took my breath away...like I seriously could not breathe. We ended up spending an extra night there because 2 nights was just not sufficient. We hiked through all 5 villages the following day after we got there and the hike took us about 4 and half hours to do. Not gonna lie- it was a pretty rough hike. Most of the time we just lounged around on the gigantic rocks and soaked up the sun and just soaked up Italy. So we left Cinque Terre this morning, went to see the leaning tower of Pisa and now we are in Rome! We will go to the Vatican tomorrow and see most of the city! gotta go for now but will update more tomorrow! ttyl
kayla