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Friday - Wednesday, March 25 - 30, 2005 Zuerich, die Schweiz; Milano Pisa and Venezia, Italia: Wow. What a great trip. 6 days with Chris and Kyle. I can't handle it anymore. Needless to say, some crazy things happened on our journeys. Where to begin. Zurich has the most confusing train station! More confusing that Stuttgart (which many can attest to). It took Chris and I so long to find the tram we needed to take. Then we couldn't figure out what direction we needed to take, then we couldn't figure out how to work the ticket machine, or rather, what ticket we needed, and it was in English! Then we asked some guy and he said it was easier to take tram #7, so we had to go back to the train station and couldn't find these other tram stops. No signs! When we finally found the tram stop, I almost got hit by a car crossing the street because I forgot to look both ways. They weren't stopping, so I had to run.

We saw the biggest duck in the world in Zurich. This thing was a monster. So on to Milan ... little did we know that there was a huge soccer game in Milan the day we were there. Scotland versus Italy ... world cup qualifiers. As we got off the train in Milan, we noticed a few Scotsmen in kilts. Cool, we thought. Then we kept seeing more and more, and finally, around 4 PM, they were en massed around the Duomo ("you're at the Duomo"). I think the whole population of Scotland was there. Soccer hooligans

abound!! They were everywhere in kilts with jerseys and soccer scarves. Oh, and we found out that Scotsmen don't wear anything under their kilts. The mystery is solved. Also ... Milan has no night life. It took us so long to even find an open restaurant for dinner. Once we finally did, it was delicious. We then hit up an English Pub and watched the rest of the soccer match. Italy won, 2-0. Poor Scotland. Chris decided this night to try a Long Island Ice Tea. He drank it in 30 seconds ... then proceeded to knock over a table, spill Kyle's drink on himself, and break a glass. He was so happy though because he bought a PACE flag. He wanted one for so long. We also lost him in the metro station. Kyle and I thought he was behind us, but he wasn't. Whoops. Sorry again Chris. Speaking of the Metro ... all the ticket machines were "defekt" so we just kept restamping the first one we bought. We rode the metro for 2 days for only 1 euro. Woot. We decided to sleep in a bit the next morning and take a later train to Pisa. We also didn't realize that it was daylight savings time. We woke up at 8 ... but it was really 9 ... so we missed breakfast. Good thing we had Eurail passes and didn't have to worry about catching a particular train.

Our hostel in Pisa was awesome. It was a campground and we had our own little camper. We had fun. Oh, and the tower ... totally leaning. We also had the most delicious dinner ever. Chris led us on a death march in Venice to find gelato after dinner. Everything in Venice closes at like 4 PM. It is amazing. What do people do at night? I also had a Pizza Americana one day for lunch ... which is just a cheese pizza with french fries on it. That's right ... I tried a pizza with french fries on it ... and it tastes just like it sounds. If you ate the pizza with the fries, it just tasted like boring pizza. The fries added nothing to it. So then I ate them separately. After Kyle left for home (on Tuesday), Chris and I wandered around and ended up sitting by a side canal watching gondolas go by. One gondoleer tried to get me into the gondola as he went by. I was confused, because there were already people in the gondola. A pigeon almost pooped on Chris's shoe too. Just missed it. Oh yeah ... and I almost fell in the Grand Canal.

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