Best Italy Trip Ever!

Austin is amazing. I went to see the sunset off the lake at this restaurant, and the view is amazing! The important part of that is driving up there is winding roads and cliffs and whatnot. It looks exactly like Sardinia!
Which is of course the point of this blog.
The CRACK (The RACK plus Crystal) Sardinia trip was very interesting, but I think it basically sums up how we travelled around Europe that semester. It is quite ironic that it became my favorite trip we ever took together. It is ironic because the girls had to literally MAKE me go. I was hungover and really didn’t want to get out of my nice warm bed after an hour of sleep to go on a boat. Seriously didn’t sound fun at all, not even a little bit.
But, I did. And I am so glad that I did! For those of you who don’t remember or didn’t have the pleasure of being there here is a recap, I am however, fuzzy on some of the details, like how long did we wait for the boat, and how long did it take to drive up the island so a little help please.
First, we got on the train to go to the port to catch the boat to take us across to the island. Sounds easy right. Turns out when we got there the next boat was not scheduled to leave for several hours (you know, like12) and the next boat was going to Cagliari, not Olba which was our original destination. No biggie. We are nothing if not flexible.
We decide to lay out being as there was nothing else to do. This was not a so much of a problem except for Rachel and Kat and the fairest skin ever. And we had been out all night the night before, so we were all operating on little to no sleep and promptly feel asleep in the sun. With no sunscreen. It was painful.
Finally the boat came. It was a nice boat. Pretty big, amenities, etc. We were poor college students so we had to get the cheap seats. We were, to quote Crystal, “the first people who died on the Titanic.” We basically sat in the belly of the boat. It was set up kind of like a lounge/living room. Of course we also wanted pictures of ourselves on this amazing boat. We decided to ask a cute old man to take the picture. That conversation went like this.
Us: Hi, would you please take our picture?
Old Man: No. (walked briskly away)
WTH? Seriously, who does that?
Anyways, sunburn is starting to kick in, so we chill for a little bit, sleep some, drink with some Navy boys we met, play poker all night, you know the normal stuff one does on a long ass boat ride.
We FINALLY get to Cagliari, Sardinia. YAH!!
Our master plan is to rent a car and drive up the island to Olba, which is where we initially wanted to go. It’s a small island, how long could it really take??
Turns out, much longer than anticipated.
We went to rent a car and got a tiny Ford Focus, in Italy, we drove a Ford. What is that? The guy at the rental place was like, you should take the main highway it will only take a few hours. But why would we do that, when there is this awesome looking road that goes along the coast? It is way more scenic. It also takes significantly longer, which we failed to ask before embarking on this little adventure.
The road trip was great though! We hooked some Walkman speakers up in the backset, and rocked out. Along the way we also managed to have some fun. There was the running of the pigs, where we got chased, or we chased, some wild pigs. Why were we out of the car you might ask, well there was an inviting sprinkler that just looked too much like a shower to pass up. We had the brilliant idea to shower in the sprinkler. Yes, we were wearing our street clothes, and yes the sprinklers were about 500 yards away from the road. Bummer though we were on our way when the sprinklers turned off.
It was a beautiful and scenic drive, and we took some great pictures, climbed a tree, and danced in the street.
We finally arrive in Olba pretty late at night, I at least remember it was dark. We needed to find a place to stay for the night and we were low on funds. So we just drove around until we found a hotel that looked good, and checked it. The thing with that is we really wanted to save some money, so we just got one room with a king sized bed. There are only 5 girls, SURELY we can all fit. So 2 girls checked in and the other 3 snuk around back and went in. No biggie, people do that all the time, right?
Yeah we got busted.
The next morning, after the most glorious shower ever (It had been about 2 and half days at this point), and sleeping in a bed for the first time in several days, we attempted to sneak the 3 girls out the back. It didn’t really work. Something about needing to register with passports....
It is now Easter Sunday! What better way to spend Easter than on the beach….topless.
My sunburn was so ridiculous and hurt so badly, I just had it with a bra and shirt. I couldn’t do it. Moreover, the sun and sand hurt my legs very badly. The obvious answer to that delimma was flannel pj pants, no shirt, and juice box wine. It was very comfy on the sunburn. Thus the RACK’s RACK was born. Pictures to document the toplessness were necessary.
Sadly, we had to leave that evening. Taxis of course cost money, we didn’t have any of that so we needed a ride to the port. Why not ask the nice boys on the beach. It was weird they totally were stoked to take us. I wonder if it had anything to do with the toplessness……hmmm…..
Things get a little fuzzy for me here, I was delirious with pain from the sunburn (and maybe juice box wine had something to do with it). The boat back was super sketchy. There were airplane seats, and it was about five degrees below zero in there.
But, we thankfully made it back safely to Roma. Oh Roma……..
(I wanted to put some pictures on here too, but I don’t have any on the computer and I am too tired tonight to scan some. They will come later, and if you have any please attach!)