Day 7 June 6th

Ok, I (Nate) have to write this one again… We got up early this morning trying to make the most of Verona and find a hostel to stay in instead of an expensive hotel. So, we took off out of our room and headed all over the beautiful city of Verona (the most bike friendly city we have been to yet!!!). We saw all the wonderful sites such as the home of Juliet and the famous balcony (and wall were people still post love notes to this day) as well as Romeo’s home (which is honestly a 5-10 minute walk away and they couldn’t find each other!!! What the heck people!!!) Then we saw some more ancient architecture a miniature version of the Coliseum called the Verona Arena. On top of all of this we also saw the Teatro Romano which was really quite cool. This ancient theatre reminded me of an ancient version of “Red Rocks Amphitheater” with a few modern additions such as a new seating and stage area. We also noticed that “some band” (I was honestly making fun of the drummer as they were doing all the set up and sound checks on his drums as he of course kept hitting the same one over and over and over and over again….) was getting set up and paid no attention to it as we looked down from our vantage point at the top of some stairs by a castle. After my mistake of making fun of the drummer we made our way to the other side of the castle to our hostel that we were staying in for the night. After a while I heard “this band” playing as we were laying in bed and said to Mo “they’re playing We don’t need no education by Pink Floyd” about 10 minutes later I said “They’re playing Money, what is up with all this Pink Floyd stuff”. Then finally a third Pink Floyd song came on and I mentioned to Mo “I was going to be so pissed if that really is Pink Floyd and were staying here because your pants are wet.” (We did laundry in the sink that night and her only pair of pants were still wet.) With that I finally fell asleep to the melody of “this band” playing in my ears. Then this morning the first thing we do after leaving our hostel was look to find out just who was playing last night. Guess what I am still pissed because it really was Pink Floyd on their 20 year reunion!!!! ( strike 2 of our trip, and I hope the strikes don’t get any harder to take than this! Sorry Greg and Don I will never let you down like this again.)
Nate