Los tres amigos are off on an adventure

I'm going to be gone April 4-25 on Easter Break. Yes.. they really give us a three week break. Jansher, Stacy, and I will be traveling to four countries. We are flying to Berlin, Germany. From there we are taking the Eurail train to Prague, Czech Republic. No one was that excited about it when we were making these plans a month and a half ago. In fact, I had to demand that it be put on the itinerary. For some odd reason I just really wanted to go there. Since then, many of the exchange students have come back and said that it's amazing! So now we are all really excited to go. We plan to spend about three days in each of these places. Then we are off to Vienna, Austria. The reviews have said it's not so great and there isn't much to do there, so we will probably only stay 1.5 days or so. Although, that is the beauty of having an open train ticket and not pre-booking hostels. If we like one place, we can stay as long as we want, if we don't like somewhere, we can move on. We have no itinerary, just our maps and cameras!

Then we are going to Venice, but we've heard it's a romantic city. Too bad Stacy and I will only be there with Jansher! Haha. We'll stay there a few days. We are going to make a day stop to Pisa to eat PIZZA and see the Leaning Tower. Then we are off to Rome, where we hope to have about five days. One of the girls we've met here is Italian and she lives in Rome. We are hoping to meet up with her and have her show us around a couple of the days. Also, she suggested restaurants and stuff for us. That's great to have a native tell you all the great little, and often overlooked, spots. We fly out of Rome on Saturday to come back to Hatfield

At first I wasn't that excited. We were making plans and it was very matter-of-fact. I'm still contemplating on how to fit clothing for all four seasons for 21 days in a bag that I can carry for indefinite amounts of time... perplexing. Then as the trip was only days away, I was getting supplies, and thinking omg! I'm backpacking through Europe. When people graduate from high-school, they often say they are going to do great things such as this, but never get to it. I mean in 14 hours I will be off on a trip BACKPACKING THROUGH EUROPE!!!!!!!!!!! By myself, well not by myself, but certainly not with one of my parents. Luckily, Stacy and I are bringing with us 200+ pounds of our own, personal body guard. We'll be safe. It will be an adventure. Right now I feel like it's Christmas Eve, you are so excited you can't sleep, but if you don't sleep, it will seem like forever until Christmas day. Well at 3am begins "Christmas."