Happy Fourth of July.

Happy 4th of July. Hope you all have lots of fun today and see lots of fireworks. I spent today....doing laundry....for 2 hours. :( And I'm still not done. I still have to wash all my jeans. I never knew hand washing laundry was such hard work. My back hurts now. And I didn't even have that many clothes!

We're going to Cinque Terre this weekend. :D It's supposed to be these 5 really beautiful towns on the beach. There's trails to hike in between them, and lots of relaxing stuff to do, like swimming and going on boats. The Palio on Monday was pretty crazy. We were all packed in the Piazza del Campo, the main square in town. I actually thought we were going to be packed in even tighter, but I actually had a little space to move around. Still, there were lots and lots of people there. We got there 2 hours before, but still didn't get very good spots. I could kinda see the horses during the race, but not very well. 2 jockeys actually fell off their horses. One of them was actually trampled by another horse, but then he got up right afterwards and was fine. Hehe. My culture class teacher says the jockeys are made of rubber. And guess who was at the Palio? Tom Hanks! So exciting! and we actually saw him at his window. Actually, one of my roommates saw him on our street before the Palio! She did a double take, and was gonna go talk to him, but one of his bodyguards stopped her. Andy Garcia was also there, but we didn't find him. It was funny, one of the guys that I was with had a camera with high zoom, so he was taking pictures of all the people on the balconies and zooming in on their faces to see if they were celebrities or not. When we found Tom Hanks, we were like, OMG! and started waving to him. He actually waved back to us! And took out his camera and took a picture of us. :D