Friday the 13th

So I don't know about you, but as it turns out Friday the 13th's are unusually good to me. For instance today I spent the morning watching Torchwood online when my best friend texted me to see if I wanted to hang out tomorrow (since I leave for my dig on tuesday). Then I spent the afternoon packing and watching Bones which,although it made me cry, was brilliant! The previously mentioned best-friend and I have high hopes for the season finale. Then out of the blue my mother decides that we should go out for dinner, seeing as my dad will be working late and my brother is going to be away all weekend, and it will be just her, my other brother, and myself. And to top it off, it is starting to sound and feel like there might be a thunder storm! I can't wait to see what else today holds for me; because while these may seem like trivial things, they have a way of putting a smile on my face and just generally making my day.

As far as Friday the 13th's go, however, I've had even better! In March of '09 I had the luxury of going on a student trip to "Rome and the Riviera", and after a long and exhausting plane ride (I love planes though) we landed in Rome and began some of the greatest adventures of my life, on -you guessed it- Friday the 13th! I'm not going to lie to you and suggest that the first day went off without a hitch, to be fair one of the girls went in to diabetic shock and had to go to the hospital, which was a scary experience. But the positive definitely outweighed the negative! Walking around a sunny Italian piazza eating fresh gelato, braving the Roman Catacombs to see beautiful, beautiful arrangements out of human bones... words cannot express how much I loved the catacombs, I could have stayed in there for days. I love bones, so very, very much. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't wish I could go back to bella Italia: Roma, Firenze, Napoli, Sienna, Toscana; some of my favourite places in the world, and I hope that someday I will get to go back.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is this: If anyone ever asks me if Friday the 13th is unlucky, my answer will be. "Never!"