Hey, you win some, you lose some. This time we lost. But we made up for it afterwards when we sat outside St. Francis again and just watched the church and towns light up in the dark. As we walked back to our hotel, we met a guy from Florida who is also studying in Rome for the semester, and hopefully we'll get the chance to hang out with him and some of his classmates, since we've been living/eating/traveling/attending class with the same 16 people for the last month. It'll be good to meet new people that speak English. When we got back to our hotel we played some card games and just had a good time. The next morning I woke up before the rest of the crew and got a cappuccino at the local café, then hiked up to the castle on the hilltop. I couldn't get enough of the view from up there, and neither could the two old Italian men I met there, so I headed back down to get the girls then brought them up too. After gaping at the castle and the view, and taking way too many pictures, we split up and Nicole, Abbie, and I hiked down to a little bridge crossing a creek at the base of the mountain while Destiny and Kari made videos of themselves talking smack about us while we weren't there. While on the bridge, Nicole tried her first pear ever. I'm so proud of her. The hike up was a killer, not only because we were hiking up a mountain, but it was also muddy. We stumbled across some temple or shrine with representations of four different religions on it, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and something I didn't recognize. There were also random statues around it. Pretty weird. When we got back we ate at a restaurant next to our hotel and then headed to the train station. After much sleeping on the train, free oranges from a strange man, and sharing music with Nicole, we finally arrived back home in Rome.