21st Birthday in Florence!

The day started off with getting our favorite cafe lattes and pastries at Cafe Cavour, then got to Ethics late (what else is new), went to Italian class (they sang to me in Italian), and then went to a paper shot called Il Papiro where we got to make our own paper designs- I'll upload the pictures from my phone soon! I didn't have my camera, but that's okay.  Gianni works there and is easily one of the nicest men in this city.  He gave me a free fancy birthday pencil and showed us around the store teaching us about the various techniques they use for making their paper products.  After that, Sarah and I got to lunch (10 minutes late- whoops!) where we enjoyed lasagna (yummm), delicious pork and carrots, and dessert (cream puffs- a great birthday treat)!  After lunch, I made my way to the Sculpture studio to meet my professor and two other students so we could go to a local mask maker's studio to see his incredible masks!  We're currently making masks in class using molds of our own faces, so it was really neat to see all the possibilities of projects we could do! After that, I went to Fresco and starting a new fresco project.  It's a nice class, but I didn't exactly feel like being there for 3 hours on my birthday! Then we got ANOTHER dessert at dinner (normally fruit is our dessert, so it is always fun when we get cake or ice cream).  After dinner, we went through 183048 outfit choices and I had my personal hairdresser and make up artist a.k.a. Brittany Fuller get me ready for my 21 run!  We had fun in the pensione and welcomed about 30 people to celebrate with us here before heading to Shots Cafe, Naima (where we met the rest of GU because there was another 21 run), and Club 21 (how fitting, right?) where we danced the night away! It was so fun to celebrate this milestone in such a fabulous city with my best friends and new GIF friends!  Can't wait to order a drink back in the states! Thank you to everyone who thought of me on my birthday and sent birthday loving my way :) Cheers to being 21!