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Hot Springs. Italians are funny.

So yesterday. Last minute, after we finished our finals, we were drinking wine and wandering our beautiful city. We got gelato, had pizza for lunch, rode the ferris wheel overlooking the valley, and then got invited to go to the hot springs. The HOT SPRINGS? Like, WHAT? I didn't even know we HAD those around here. Well, we do. And my roommate's friend's Italian boyfriend wanted to take us. So we get in the car, well three cars full, a bunch of American girls and Italian boys, and we headed out into the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE to go swimming in the hot springs. It was SPECTACULAR. It was like a natural hot tub, on the side of  mountain in Italy, with only the BEST of views.
Turns out some of the best experiences come from spontaneous decisions. I'm so glad I went.

Why Italians are funny:
You know how in Minnesota if you get out of a pool/hot tub, even if its freezing and in the winter, you just go barefoot in a towel until you're in the house/in the car/dried off? Well not in Italy. For the hot springs, we had packed our swim suits and a towel...that's it. These boys had packed special WATERPROOF SANDALS and ROBES. Because upon exiting the hot spring, when it was time to leave, they didn't want to walk barefoot and get their feet dirty or let their body be cold. So of course when we hop out of the water and wrap up in our towels, barefoot on the dirt road in the woods in Italy, they thought we were crazy. "American girls are crazy!" They said. And we asked why. They said, "Look at you, you aren't wearing shoes! You are going to pee in your bed because of that!"
EXCUSE ME? I'm going to do WHAT, because I'm not wearing shoes? How does that even have anything to do with anything?
"Seriously, you're going to be cold and get sick and pee in your bed because you're not wearing shoes!"
Still don't get it.
APPARENTLY, when you get a cold/get sick from being in the cold, you have to pee alot, or pee in the bed? I literally still don't understand. I don't get sick from standing barefoot in 50 degree weather, and I also don't pee the bed when I have a cold. So...
Italians are funny.

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