June 23

We woke up to be ready at 6:30 am to leave for the Termini. It was finally time to travel north, and our first stop was Assisi. After a crazy morning of seeing threats written on the walls in black tape outside of my room, we left for the Termini. Although we missed a train and had to run for another one, we FINALLY made it to Assisi!! This is the part of the trip that everyone had been looking forward to since the very beginning!

Once we arrived at our hotel, no one could get over how amazing the view was. We stood there for so long just taking in the sight of the beautiful landscape and taking pictures.

Once we all got settled in, we made our way to the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi. St. Francis is buried there, and we got to go downstairs and see this tomb and pay respects. I actually was not sure who he was when we got there, so I asked Lauren and Katie to explain to me who he was. I thought it was really interesting, so I looked him up more after the matter.

http://www.assisionline.com/assisi__162.html - this is a website I used to get more information

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYA55l3QQlM - here you can get a virtual tour of the basilica!

After looking around the Basilica for a while, some of us went back to the hotel to change and just relax for about half an hour. While we were sitting there, we decided to go out and get some dinner. So Lauren, Jacob, Katie, Kylee and Antonia went out to explore Assisi. We saw some great shops while we were walking around, and we found a nice little place to get some food. The most amazing part was our location. No one really cared what we were doing or what we were eating, but the face that we were finally just sitting in Assisi was amazing. After we ate, we were walking back and found this AMAZING pastry shop. We spent at least fifteen minutes in there just looking around and trying to decide what to get.

Once we got back to the hotel, we just sat outside and talked while enjoying the view. We must have sat out there for at least four hours that day.

As we were sitting there, people slowly kept coming back from their day in Assisi and joined us out there. Once it was about 9:00 at night, we were all there and just relaxing and having a good time, even though we were all exhausted. It was a really fun time to have the whole group together. At 9:30 (ish) we walked to a higher point and saw the stars.

Such an amazing ending to an amazing day.