Florence

The group arrived at Hotel Porta Faenza in Florence, Italy during the evening. The hotel was very nice. Immediately after settling our luggage, we dined at an Italian restaurant. I ordered lasagna. There were illegal street vendors everywhere near the Duomo Church. We stumbled upon an Italian ice store, which sold Absenthe. We bought a bottle just to try it and find out what the hype was about.

During the second day, we rented bikes for a few Euros and peddled to the Italian countryside. The vendor wrote down my driver license information to make sure I would return the bikes. My tires were flat, which I soon found to make a bike extremely slow and unstable. About half the way up, we stopped in a park to relax for a few minutes. At the summit, we visited a fort that overlooked the countryside. The view was great. The journey down was considerably easier. Later at night, we went to a club called Faces that gave us a fake black American Express card for some unknown reason. The club was awesome and it was all-you-can-drink until midnight. Afterwards, we crossed the bridge to go to another club, where I remained until dawn.