The longest day in the history of traveling:

Today marks day one of the travels.  I am currently writing this on a train from Verona to Rome.  This train is only slightly sketchy...I don't know which makes me more nervous: the deteriorating exterior, the obnoxious sounds, or the fact that the train is uncontrollably shaking.  This train makes me super nervous, and I am exhausted and my ears keep popping every other minute.  Beyond these small details, I am having a pretty good day so far. :)

The day started off shaky.  Kortnie and I had a six hour layover in Hannover.  We spent the entirety of the six hours awake reading magazines, enjoying one hour of complimentary wifi, and generally wandering the hauptbahnhof.  When it was finally time to get on the train and leave for Munich, we were ecstatic.  All we wanted to do was sleep.  We boarded our train, which was an ICE train, and we felt like we were in heaven.  The chairs were comfy and we fell asleep pretty quickly.  The one thing I don't like about sleeping in public is that I make noises in my sleep.  I don't know why I do it, but every once in a while, I will be peacefully sleeping and suddenly I will be startled awake by myself making my sleeping noise.  For those of you that don’t know what my sleeping noise is, its like a medium pitched ‘huh.’  I find it sounds like I am saying it in a questioning manner.  Well anyways, I made this sound on the train and I looked around, slightly embarrassed, and no one had heard it.  This is pretty much the most eventful and exciting point of my day.

Once Kortnie and I arrived in Munich, we were late thanks to the train, we ran to our next train and just barely made it on in time.  In this train we were assigned certain seats within a little car box.  We were with four grown German adults and a baby that was less than a year.  Babies push my limits.  Yes, babies are adorable; however, when a child is screaming please don’t decide to breast feed your baby in front of me without asking.  And please, dont talk about the pains of breastfeeding in German because you dont think we dont understand.  Babies, they can ruin a train ride, real quick.  Seven hours later we arrived in Verona, Italy.  The ride to Verona was so beautiful.  The train took us through the Alps, and through the countryside of Italy.  Once the train hit Italy's’ countryside, Kortnie and I passed the fuck out.  Out cold for a good 45 minutes.  I even fell asleep with my sunglasses on.  Italy is quite sunny, if you did not know!

After the seven hour ride to Verona, Kortnie and I went and walked around and had some Italian pizza and then boarded our last train for the day!  This train is only a mere three and a half hours!  

Total train riding time: 17.5 hours

Total hours of sleep: <4 hours

Best quote of the day: “dude, that river looks like a special edition kool-aid.”

What am I most looking forward to: a bed, a shower, and less people.