today was the first sunny day we've had and we started it out sketching by the harbor. well actually the day started out with stephanie bribing my forgiveness with a pastry. i hate to admit that it worked. we took the train over to manarola today to buy souvenirs...no telling what!  everytime you buy a ticket you have to validate it, except today the validation machines weren't working. i could care less but stephanie looked like she was in a full state of panic the entire time we were on the train...especially when we were on our way back and the train person was sitting in the compartment behind us. steph had a foolproof plan to outsmart said individual. her great plan? run the other direction. i might want to mention that the fine for not having a validated ticket is 40 euros. i should also mention that the ticket person said it wasn't a problem and that the train we were currently on was packed full of people. running? not necessary and not possible. so we finally get to the station and the train is so long that sometimes you have to get out in the tunnel and not on the platform. we've done this basically every time since we've gotten here but apparently steph is retarded. so there was a whole group of people in the area by the doors and the train stopped but no one was moving. ....... i finally realized that no one knew how to open the door (sometimes they don't open automatically) so i said "oh you need to push the green button" i  know people understood me. but do you think anyone listened?????????? nooooooo. simultaneously people pointed behind me at the train lady and someone else said "we're in the tunnel".  so what does the train lady do but walk up to the door and push the green button. HELLO! did i not just say that five minutes ago? fine. no one listen to the american. i see how it is. so we finally get out and i turn to steph to rant about it and i say "and who was the genious that pointed out that  we were in a tunnel. god what an idiot." one guess to who that idiot was. that's right. stephanie. shame. also interesting yesterday at the train station we witnessed a fight. it was very exciting and i almost shouted out "translate to english!" so that we could know what was going on. sadly we have no idea but we think someone was attempting to be a sneaky sneaky thief and they got  caught.

that's all for now!