Italia

A Journey Thru Italy

In March of 1999, I got the chance to go to Italy with the college I was attending at the time. I spent 8 glorious days in "heaven on Earth". I can't wait to go back!!!

Right now I only have a few pictures done. Honestly .. this page SUX! But .. it's the best I could do in the five minutes time I had to work on it :(

Soon though, it will be something worth taking a few seconds more to glance at.

A statue in a piazza in Verona.
After a VERY long flight and a bit of a drive from Milano to Verona, we got to walk around Verona for a few hours. What do you think was the first thing that Brendan, Matt, and I did? ..... we went in search of food ... real food .. not that airplane stuff. We had our first taste of real Italian pizza while sitting on the steps of an old building.
This statue was about 10 metres away from where we were sitting in the piazza.

Our group hit up 10 northern Italian cities in 8 days, and we stayed in 4 different hotels.

So, basically, we spent a lot of time on the bus, traveling from city to city.

And, being "typical American college students", we didn't get any sleep at night ;) The time we spent on the bus was reserved for sleeping .. the rest of our time was for partying .. hehe.

Although .. not all of us slept on the bus ;)

(enroute from the Milano airport to Verona)

(L - R: Chris, Paul, Rachel, Christine)

(Brendan)

Where am I?
Quote [Matt] "Hey! Where's the Rialto?"

Quote [Us] "Matt .. you're standing on it!"

The view from the back of Il Rialto, Venezia

One night, someone came up with the idea to go check out Murano. So, a large group of us headed down to take the ferry to the island. We got there, and nothing but one bakery and one bar was opened. I did luck out though when Paul came
out of the bakery yelling "They have Tuborg!" Well, we all know that I couldn't pass

that up .. so I bought 6 large bottles and stuffed them in my backpack. Since there wasn't much else to do, we went to get the ferry back and had to wait over an hour. ("Don't overtake during the wait?!")
Ever notice that when you're really bored (like waiting for that DAMN ferry) that you get really silly? Well, we did! Especially when ferries kept coming by and we were repeatedly told that we wanted the OTHER ferry and it would be along shortly (bull-shit)
How long til this f*ckin' boat gets here?!?! Muahahahahaha

After we FINALLY got the ferry back, we all split up. JP, Tracy, Brendan, Matt, and I decided to go get something for dinner.
Just over the bridge from the trash can (with our hotel's name and the arrow that pointed the way) was this restaurant. It was THE best meal I had the entire time I was in Italy.

It was the first time I'd had fish in 7 years. The wine was superb. The company was hysterical.

Memorable Quotes from the Trip

Brendan: What are we doing here? / Demos: Masturbating
Demos: Fuck the group!
Matt: Feel the Material
Demos(To Brendan): You’re a pretty cool guy. You lead the group.

Found on the “Dock corral”: Don’t over take during the wait
Demos(in St.Mark’s): Zip it up
Demos: Look a vineyard!
Demos: Fuck the group!

Matt(@dinner): What was the phrase .. Andata e Toranto?
Matt: mmmmmmm
Trish(@St.Mark’s): I know nothing
Demos: This is for luck
Demos: This is for wealth
Demos: Fuck the group!

Meg & Christine: They’re Hot! / Demos: Wanna get laid?
Demos: If you find a prostitute, send her to me & I’ll test drive her so you don’t waste your $
Matt: I’ll have what he’s having
Brendan: I can’t believe he’s buying that cape!
Paul: Hey! Were Americans!!
Demos: Somebody’s gonna have an orgasm

Matt: According to Kontos’s directions, we should be following the signs that say "Your Hotel"

Brendan, JP, & Lisa: What’s with the glass?!?!?!?!
JP: Brendan, you have to understand. We’re shopping with women!
Lisa: Carpe Pesce! – Seize the Fish!
JP: It takes balls to get neutered
Demos: Fuck the group!

Matt: Where’s Brendan?
Everyone: Where’s Matt?
Lisa: Scusi. Ha la birra Tuborg???
Matt: Hey, how do you turn on the light? (*SCREAM*)

Alex(@ the Trevi Fountain): Don’t worry, the gods will take your $ any way they can get it.

Paul(paraphrased): If that plane explodes, then ours won’t. What’s the chances of 2 in one day?
Someone(?): There’s a bus in Venice? I didn’t think there were any cars?
Christine(laughing): I thought it really was made of sugar!
Everyone: Can you take one with my camera now?
Dan: Excuse me .. I didn’t get my meal
Demos: Fuck the group!

Everyone: Lisa, Vienna is in Austria, this is Venice!
Rachel: One time, I looked up in the sky, and I saw Venice.
Jeff: What’s the story Agnes?
Bob: we’ll stop about ½ way and take a break. We’ll have some food and a “you know what break”
Bob: can you do any better then getting by Demos?
Demos: God damnit! *Slap* / Bob: Ouch!!!

Demos: Bite your tongue / Matt: (bites his tongue)
Paul: What the hell is in my salad??? / Waiter: Eat. It’s good. You like.
Walking in to the hotel in Padova: Uh-huh-huh-huh com-ple-men-ta-ry!
Paul(drunk): Don’t worry, I got it under control.
Paul, Kelly, & Christine(while looking at badae): What’s this thing for?
Melinda(drunk): Quick! Go get Brendan! He’s sober .. he can help us.

Dan: Don’t worry, you have time. Actually, no you don’t, we’re leaving now!
Matt: Partician, mortician, Paint Tischen
Meg: What the hell is that? He gets a futuristic car and I get a bucket of water?!?!
(Said simultaneously)Christine: Why do I have to be a wild boar? / Meg: I’m not a grizzly seacaptain!
Meg & Christine: Look at the knockers on that .. door
Jack: She ate spaghetti off my head.
Demos: Fuck the group!

Paul: I don’t mean to be a wet blanket, but we have 4 minutes left.
Jack: You be the translator, I’ll be the idiot!
Lisa: Hi my name is Lisa & I’m the stamp translator.
Paul: That’s irreasonable
JP, Lisa, & Tracey: wasn’t it just 3.30?
Matt: No, this is pre-post operation.

Brendan(to the busdriver): It’s hot. Please make it cold.
Found on a T-Shirt : Non sono grasso, sono soft.
Vendor @ Roman Forum: Cheaper than K-Mart!
Vendor @ Coliseum: Book! Book! Wanna buy a book? / Lisa: No! / Vendor: How about my phone #?

JP: What the hell is this wall?! OH! It’s the Vatican!
Meg(to Christine) Your clothes are in the badae. Do you want them?
Tracey: Hey Lisa, we got out wakeup call. / Lisa (laying on her back, throws a “thumbs-up” into the air)
Jack(last night in Rome): I’m gonna hook-up tonight!
Demos: Fuck the group!

Alex: I didn’t like it. I felt there was something missing.
Demos: Fuck the group!
Matt: I’d rather be dead in Italy, then alive in America!
Bob: Don’t worry about it. He’s been wearing the same underwear for 8 days.
John: I’m going to bury him in his books.

Matt: Vorrei gin and tonic / (Jonathon thinks he wants 4)
Customs guy: School sucks!
Alex(to Brendan): If you ask me, it’s nothing more then an exotic attempt at suicide.
Brendan: Those who haven’t eaten, will eat those who have.
Matt: (*kissnoise* x’s4) Hey baby!
Brendan: I don’t know, he was doing jumping jacks. He did make an ass out of himself.

Demos: Yes .. very miraculous .. very asinine .. very Jesus like .. very yellow.
Demos: There’s Jesus. He’s dead as hell.
JP(looking @ the David): Hey! He’s not circumcised!
Brendan: Hey I got an idea! Let’s split up!
Christine(to Meg): It’s my chapstick, you pick your nose.

Christine: What’s your chiamo?
Jack: Those nun’s are so cute.
Christine & Brendan: Let’s go walk up the stairs of the Vatican again!
Brendan: I meant it in the most miraculous way.
Meg(tipsy): This elevator is SO cool!
Bob: This hotel is very schwanky!

Brendan: Oh dear! You muthafuckers are alright!
Meg(to Christine, while getting characature drawn): Do I have boogers in my nose? If I did, do you think he’d draw them?
Us: “Who’s in da house? J.C.’s in da house!”
Kelly(on the plane): did you get lettuce? / Matt: some people call it cabbage. / Kelly: do you want one of my green olives? / Matt: some people call those mushrooms.

Kelly(infront of church): oh shit oh shit oh shit!
Matt: Ok, you be the boy.
Meg: Everything is moving in a way it shouldn’t be.
Matt: I don’t think we’ve heard enough Def Leppard

Matt: It’s scorpion O’clock.
Matt & Paul (singing on the way back to the hotel): Show me the way to go home
Chris(to a very drunken Paul): Don’t make me get physical!
Demos: Fuck the group!

Matt: This is the worst meal I’ve ever had in my life! I’m going to get drunk tonight, so drunk that my brain stops working. I will disgrace my country, this country, and other countries that have nothing to do with it. I will be on fire. The police will be involved. I may need medical attention. I will fight obese women, dwarfs, clowns, cripples, Professor Kontos, Chris, A man dressed like a kangaroo, a kangaroo dressed as a bear, a bear dressed as Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris dressed as me, and me dressed like Sally Fields. So mom, if I don’t make it home – I love you and it was me who ate the last piece of cake that time before the party.

My trip to Urbino in 2001

My trip to Denmark in 2001

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