The weekend following the second formal dinner was our first long travel weekend, so 6 other girls and I decided to spend Saturday thru Monday in Palermo, Sicily. Fabio picked us up early Saturday morning to take us down to Marco Polo Airport outside of Venice. Our flight was supposed to leave at 9:10 but when we got to the airport we found out that our flight had been moved to 10:55 because it had been combined with a flight to another city in Sicily. We sat in the departures lounge for two hours, entertaining ourselves as best we could– taking pictures of each other, dancing to ipods, taking pictures of each other dancing to ipods… (more…)