Tanti Aguri Laura!

One of the sweetest friendships the Lord has allowed me to invest in this semester is with Laura.
And this sweet girl just turned the exciting age of 20!
So, of course, we had to throw a party.

I was in on the planning with her best friend, Giulia.
To make a long story short--everything I planned didn't happen.
Oh well.
We're gonna chalk it up to cultural differences.

We decided on a restaurant kinda far away for us, but no big deal.
Here, Cassie and I have decided to sit down because of another cultural difference.
Party at 8pm.
We show up at 8pm.
No Italians to speak of.
So we sit down.

Notice how happy we are despite the waiting and the hunger pains.

Unfortunately we have not adjusted to this devaluation of time.
The Italian girls do not show for another 45 minutes.
This is how we really feel about it.



Finally, we have Italians and pizza is on the way.
Let the party begin!


Laura loved her presents.
This girl is an accesories fiend--so she was ecstatic with her bracelets, necklaces and scarves.
Plus, her parents pre-ordered chocolate cake and spumanti for us!
Katie was stoked about the free drinks!


After dinner, we drove with Laura into the center.
Laura is potentially the worst driver I have ever met in my entire life.
So, the night wasn't complete until she scraped past a parked car.
Good times.

All was forgotten when we went "in giro"--(walking around) and landed at Friend's Pub.
A few late night coffees and a few bilingual Disney song renditions later, we wished our little birthday girl "Aguri" and hit the sack. I feel so old and tired with 20 year olds!!