May 18th we took a train to Florence or firenze depending on where you are in the world. Florence is a very tightly packed city with crazy driving and really narrow roads in the city it was pretty crazy we didn't explore much for our first day there but coming on the train was nothing but beautiful scenery (though dry) and police officers checking the train with dogs we made a pitstop in Milan and had snack watched everyone smoke by trains so many people smoking inside it was ridiculous! But most of them were in good shape so they must be doing something right I guess when we got to Florence the train station was just packed full of people just so so so many it looked and felt like mayhem it took us awhile to get to our hostel but we did get to see the Florence cathedral which is amazing even just from the outside! When we got to out hostel...it was a real life nightmare at first I didn't even want to sleep in my bed everything about the place was really really sketchy we went and got a pizza next door and that calmed me down a bit but I still took all the blankets off the bed got new sheets and slept in my sleeping bag haha and that was day 1 in Florence!!

May 17th so today was the full Swiss experience!! Except for chocolate haha but we were still very swiss with our accents and going up to the Alps. To get to Murren (where Andrews family is from) we had to catch a train to Interlaken. From Interlaken we had to take another train to a city at the base of the Alps and from there we took a cable car up 1400 meters above sea level. At the end of the cable car you have to take a mini train to the town and from there you get off and explore as much as you desire and Andrew was sick so we didn't do too much hiking but we were up there awhile it was just too fantastic! Afterwards we came down went through all the trains to get back and got back to a guy pride parade which we tried to avoid but it followed to our hostel haha anyway that's all that really happened other than it being super expensive! Haha