The Alps!

Last weekend we went to the Alps. It was all the kids in our district and some of the Rotarians, and it was absolutely amazing! We took a train and then a bus to a small town in the mountains called Ponte Di Legno, where our hotel was, and then we got back on the bus to go farther up the mountain to a cute little restarunt, where we had lunch. It was delicious! Like most things here are... but anyway after that we went for a "little" walk around the mountain. We walked down a very small road to a tiny little village in the middle of the mountains. It seriously looked like it should have been in a fairy tale! It was adorable. So we wandered around there for a little and then it was time to go. But before we started down the road(not the same one we took up there) we found a very very cute horse. Most of us stopped to pet it, but this girl Danni and I really really liked it, so we stayed there and pet it for a little bit longer. Then we noticed that our group had left us. So we thought "no biggie, they can't be that far ahead, if we just keep walking we will catch up." So thats what we did. Except for the catching up part. We just kept walking and walking, and eventually we came to a fork in the road. There was no way to know where the rest of them had gone, so we kind of just stood there for a bit trying to figure out what to do. We ended up going on the straighter path, but we had no idea where we were going. Then, it started to rain. So we were lost in the Alps, in Italy, in the rain, and we didn't know enough Italian to ask for help. We just laughed at ourselves, because there was nothing else to do! We did have cell service though, so we called one of the girls in our group and asked them where they were. She told us that they were going around a turn. Because you know how straight those windy mountain roads are. So that didn't help at all, and we just kept walking, and laughing, and getting completely soaked as it started to rain harder. Finally the Rotary people figured out that we weren't with the group so they called Dani and asked us where we were, which of course we had no idea at all. They were just about to come looking for us when we got to the end of the road, and there they were, all safe and warm and dry in the bus. We survived! We spent the rest of the weekend just hanging out at the hotel and we had a meeting the next morning with the Rotarians about what the ruled are and why we're here and all that stuff, then we went home. It was an awesome weekend!