The Lost Weekend

This weekend was a “day trip” weekend, which I actually really enjoyed. Five of us went to Saluzzo, a little town about an hour train ride away. It was classic Italian (see facebook for pictures!). It was nice to be able to explore the town and get lost in the maze of streets and old buildings and not have to figure out “okay, what do we need to make sure we see next?” It was really sunny that day so just a good experience overall.
EXCEPT there’s a funny little side story: I was meeting everyone else at the train station downtown. I took the wrong bus (even after being here for 3 weeks… you know I got plenty of teasing about that one) and ended up in a different part of town. I had to work my way back thru the buses to the train station. Of course when I finally arrived and went to buy a ticket, the lines were really long and slow! So Drew waited with me while the other girls boarded the train. I finally was able to get my ticket and we ran (quite literally) to the train. We were about to hop on, but Drew freaked out saying “this train looks way to nice to be going to Saluzzo! This can’t be the train!”. So while he ran to check the train schedule, the doors closed and we lost our chance (it was the right train btw). The two of us were able to catch a train 45 mins later and met up with the girls at the station where we had to switch trains. It all worked out in the end and like Drew said: “No one ever says ‘remember that one time when the day went perfectly as planned?’… No, we’ll always tell the story of ‘remember that one time we missed the train because we thought it looked too nice?’”
On Sunday, Drew, Kelsey, and I went to a castle on the very edge of town (45 min bus ride). We of course got lost again! (This was the weekend for being lost… good thing we know how to say “where…?” in Italian). It was expensive to get in so I went in by myself while the other two looked around the town and headed home. It was cool to see, but I wish that they had information in English as well. There was a very through explanation about the history of the castle and the area and I was bummed that I didn’t get to hear any of that.
That’s all for now… I still can’t believe I am in Italy :)