Genova

Half of Saturday and most of Sunday was to be enjoyed in the famous port town of Genova. Erik, a guy in our group who served his mission in northern Italy claims it as his favorite city so those of us going were pretty excited. We first arrived and found our hostel with no problems, the city was a but dirty but we assumed we were just staying in the less uppity end and that once we started touring things would get prettier. We went to meet Erik and Elizabeth and Carson so that the party could get started but somehow all six of us wandered around the train station for the exact same hour never running into each other. Mary mollie and I were tired, hungry and in a starve place with no idea of anything that Genova offered. The sky was gray the streets were filthy and the men were leering. Needless to say, we weren't loving Genova so we bought some nutella and fruit and went back to our hostel waiting for the boys to drop Elizabeth off. They finally arrived and everyone except Erik was having similar feelings. The next morning wasn't proving much better when we four girls went to meet the boys we got stuck at the train station for an hour while the trains were cancelled one after another. We finally made it to Carson and Erik and things took an almost immediate change for the better. Erik showed us all the beautiful things Genova has to offer, the sun was shining and we were all together. One of our last stops was the original home of Christopher Columbus where Mary pulled out her book of Mormon to read the scripture in first nephi 13 about the spirit of the Lord working on Columbus to send him to America, it was incredible think that that had taken place right there and that thanks to him listening I now get to be an American with the blessing of the restored gospel, so yes Genova officially gained my approval and I'm so grateful we were able to see it.