it's so heavy, baby

Wooohooo!

We're in Palermo, where we'll be for the next 7+ days! I am so excited not to move!

Alli and I were catcalled by the nastiest dude on our way to Roma's Termini Stazione to head off to Napoli to meet Eric and Noel. He seemed to think we couldn't handle our backpacks, and tols us they were so heavy it was CRAZY, baby. And off the train, we had these guys drive around twice, as if our ignoring them meant that we just hadn't heard. I think the only two English words any given Italian man knows for sure is HEY and BABY.

The Stromboli plan was ditched after a late night in the Aversa suburb of Napoli (which is a nappy city, badadum-CHA!) with one of Eric's friends. We got kicked off a train for being ticketless, then got to the ferry terminal about 12 hours too early. Noel wanted to head to Palermo to get working on the class, so Eric, Alli and I decided to accompany him.

We ran into Mike and Jared on the train, and it was a party train from there on out.... meaning we mostly napped because everyone was so beat.

In Palermo, we all crammed into Noel's apartment and went to a bar right next door that had like 50 different kinds of beers and bruschetta for way too much money.

Yesterday, Eric, Mike, Jared, Alli and I went to the beach. The water was an unreal color of teal (save for the pea soup green for the first 15 feet where all the algae collects) and was as warm as bath water. We had a chicken fight, in which I lost every round, regardless of partner and position.

Then we went on an excursion for a super market, which took several hours, and by the time we foudn one, the flourescent lights and buzzing gave me such a horrible headache that I thought I was going to be sick and had to chill out for a while. But we cooked dinner to the 8 1/2 sound track, which was amazing, and our midnight meal was pretty bomb too.

We went on an evening walk where we encountered various feral dogs and a dead kitten. Palermo is quite the city.