fisheye photos!

My fisheye photos finally developed! Woo hoo.... take a peek at my favorites!

Italia

Some random pictures I took in italy. I didn't take too many there, I'm not sure why. Beautiful place, beautiful people, beautiful language and delicious food. On the other hand it was humid, the service was slow and there was a lot of foot traffic. Regardless, this was somewhere I am glad to have visited. 

Florence In A Tiny Nutshell

  

Random Photos From Italie

Some random pictures I took in italy. I didn't take too many there, I'm not sure why. Beautiful place, beautiful people, beautiful language and delicious food. On the other hand it was humid, the service was slow and there was a lot of foot traffic. Regardless, this was somewhere I am glad to have visited. 

THE Brandy Melville in ITALY <3

Street of vendors selling items from touristy t-shirts to leather anything!

It's a Vuitton AND it walks. Now that's a bargain.  Reminds me of Alice In Wonderland...

REAL gelato

Leather key chain souvenirs

Up, Up, Up In The Air

I love taking pictures at the airport - I always find strange things to photograph! This is when I left Paris for Florence (I should've posted this BEFORE all of my Florence pictures). I was surprised at how small and low key the airport was. Honestly I didn't feel very safe, but whatever goes!

        

 

 the wall looking out from the gate had a red tint

City jet - apparently another word for an airplane...

In Case You Are More Confused Than My Parents...

I am finally back in Honolulu, here to stay for at least a few months. I have tons of pictures and posts that didn't make it in time, but I will continue posting them! Thanks for all the love, I never thought I would've reached 700 by the end of the summer!



                                        

This summer has seriously been nonstop traveling. I love traveling and seeing new places along with continuing the traditions I have at places I've been before.
However, I don't like being stuck on an airplane for hours on end (slightly claustrophobic), not being able to sleep on time due to jet lag and packing/unpacking. I really HATE packing - It's too difficult.

An overview of my trip:

Honolulu - Tokyo (Haneda) [By myself]
        Tokyo - Nagoya *bullet train
        Nagoya - Hamamatsu *bullet train
        Hamamatsu - Tokyo *bullet train
Tokyo (Haneda) - Paris [With grandma and aunt]
        Paris - Lourdes * TGV
        Lourdes - Paris *TGV
Paris - Florence [With grandma and aunt]
Florence - Paris [With grandma and aunt]
Paris - Tokyo (Haneda)  [With grandma and aunt]
        Tokyo - Karuizawa *bullet train
        Karuizawa - Tokyo *bullet train [With grandma and aunt]
Tokyo (Narita) - Honolulu [By myself]

 Awesome mileage...!

I highly doubt my own parents knew where I was exactly this whole summer, and I barely had a clue where I was! Nonetheless, I had a blast and unforgettable summer. 9 more months and counting the days until summer 2012, where to next?

Last Day In Florence

   Gray knit from Heather, black American Eagle skirt. 

  Arno River

Can't get enough of big, flowy knits this summer! They are so comfortable and the breeze feels oh so good. 

Roof Top Getaway Garden

Playing up on the roof top flower garden. This is where we ate breakfast every morning. You can see every famous building from the view from up there. It is absolutely breath taking. 

Tornabuoni Beacci

  

This guy made the best coffee for us every morning. He even made me an iced coffee and it wasn't on the menu!

   

Some pictures from the beautiful hotel, Tornabuoni Beacci, which is where I stayed in Florence. The hotel had a great location; apparently, it is a historic building on Via Tornabuoni, Florence's most well known fashion street. When I asked the front desk if there was an historical information about the building (my grandmother wanted to know) he told me that it was built two years ago. Shocked, I looked at him quizzically and in great disbelief. The walls of the hotel were faded and some paintings were sun bleached; I thought that they must've gone through a whole lot of trouble to make it look so antique. After a little thinking, he laughed at my questioning face, and told me that the building was over a hundred years old. I laughed at myself - how could I be so naïve to believe him? Embarrassed and a bit flustered, I left the hotel for a stroll in the city.

V sorry for the weird colors, I can't seem to fix it :(

From the hotel website:

The Hotel Tornabuoni Beacci with its heirloom furnishings, refined elegance and modern comforts is a charming and enchanting location on Florence’s most elegant shopping street, the Via de’ Tornabuoni. The hotel consists of two Renaissance palaces, the Palazzo Minerbetti and the Palazzo Strozzi del Poeta, two unique buildings in the heart of Florence’s artistic and historical centre, close to the Ponte Vecchio bridge, the Uffizi Art Gallery and the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore with Brunelleschi’s famous dome and Giotto’s belfry.

http://www.tornabuonihotels.com/eng/hotel_tornabuoni_beacci_florence.htm

                                
           360˚ view from a few feet outside the hotel. Tiffany and Burberry are the hotels' neighbors, Pucci its' front yard. Can't wait to see what's down the road!