The Diary of Rome

Barcelona, Berlin, and Vienna

The flight from America to Barcelona was very long and Ali was starting to feel the jet leg but from the time she took off till she landed, she just read the diary and laughed at some of things that Chloe had written. She didn't mind the old man that sat next to her on the plane, the older gentleman was always asking her questions about what she was laughing and smiling at. Everytime someone would ask about the diary she would feel like razor had went across her heart. She sometimes had to get up and move around the plane to help not talk about what had happened. Hours had went by and finally Ali had landed in Barcelona, she had arrived around 4 pm and she had never seen such a busy airport and she had also never felt so alone. After getting her bags she went outside and got a taxi and went to her hotel, the hotel she stayed at reminded her of staying a hotel in Texas that was for a dance competition, but it was a lot bigger. The next day Ali went sight seeing and took thousands of pictures so she could put it in the diary later, Ali had never seen so many different colors and so many places to shop. One of her favorite things that she did was learn how to salsa and tango, she loved the feeling of being beautiful for the first time since the dance. For the next couple of weeks Ali had seen both the tourist and the non tourist side of Barcelona and she didn't want to leave and she wanted to see more. The next morning she would be on a train to Berlin.

Ali had never been on a train before so she didn't know what to expect, as it turns out she perfered it than being on a plane. When Ali had arrived in Berlin she was just in awe of how beautiful it was and she wasn't paying attention to realize that there were stairs, and tumbling down she went. After the show she had displayed Ali went on to her hotel to get sleep. The next day Ali had not realized that Chloe's diary had some space to write and so Ali decieded to write what has happened in the past couple of months. Berlin was full of history that had Ali in a whirl which to her was an amazing expierience and something that she was not going to forget. Couple of days later, Ali decided to go visit local towns that surrounded Berlin and that was her favorite part, talking to the locals made Ali's heart not feel so empty and feel lost. After spending weeks in Berlin and also in the local towns Ali was starting to get tired, she had one more stop before reaching Rome, Vienna.

Austria was one of the countries that Ali thought Chloe would least visit. As it turns out Vienna was one of Chloe's favorite places because she had always wanted to go hiking in the mountains of Austria. Ali didn't know that her best friend hiked and so Ali decided to give it a try. Couple of days after ariving in Vienna, Ali had met some people that were going hiking in the mountains and she decided to join them. The next morining Ali met up with her new friends and went on the hike. Ali had never seen such beautiful mountains in her life, the tops were covered in snow and it was not very cold. There was a nice breeze that had echoed through the trees, Ali would never forget that sound and she would never forget the colors of the forest and mountains that she is seeing. After 3 hours of hiking the group had reached the end of the hike, Ali was out of breath and couldn't go on anymore. When she caught up with the rest of the group and she walked to the end of the trail, what Ali saw she could not put it in to words. For the first time since the accident Ali had finally saw why Chloe wanted to hike up here, it was because she finally knew what the definition of beauty meant; Breath taking.