The Italian Apls <3

This past weekend, we were able to take a train up to the Italian Alps to a town called Belluno. We left the apartment at 6:30 to get on a 4 hour train to the mountains. The ride itself was beautiful!  Stepping away from the city and seeing nature for the first time in a couple of weeks was amazing. Just breathing in the clean and fresh air made me feel a million times healthier and cleaner. We were located in the Dolomite region right on the bottom of the Apls. Everything, and I mean everything was green and blue. When we first arrived we met up with Marina's cousin who would be taking us on our trips. We checked into the hostel first thing, which everyone was  a little skeptical about. I personally didn't find that all that bad. But some of the girls were freaking out wanting to get a hotel and blah blah blah, it was a little ridiculous to me, but it ended up not being too bad, because me and chelsea shared a double room which was a tad creepy but it was really fine. The only strange thing about it was that there was a curfew. We had to be back into the room by 11:30 or they locked us out. The place looked like an old convent or something. Very strange, but we made due. The worst thing about it I think was the food. The hostel cafeteria made me want to throw up, no joke. It was disgusting. But luckily we got some good pizza for dinner so that was good. 

After checking in and eating we took a small bus up to a melting glacier called Marmolada. The bus ride was very long and it took us higher and higher up the mountains. It was beautiful but I was hoping we could have done a little hiking but that didn't happen. Chel

sea got sick on the ride up which was no fun but luckily we were able to pull over somewhere and get changed a euro for a cup of water. Damn. Once we g

ot all the way up to our destination it ended up being a ski resort which made me really want to ski. Hopefully sometime in my life I can go back there. Once we got to the glacier we got out of the bus and took pictures. We learned that it was melting over time and we also learned how the towns were being effected by the landslides due to global warming. It must be scary to live in fear like that. The place was beautiful and we spent about 20 minutes just taking pictures.

We drove back to Belluno and stopped for some yummy gelato. We had a long lecture outside the hostel and finally were able to get some sleep. The next morning we woke up and headed to a damn which we learned once destroyed an entire village in Italy. It's insane how something man made can destroy the people who made it. After the long trip we headed back to Venice and went out to San Margerita. It felt good to be home.