Ok, so plans have quickly gone bad. We literally made it an hour from my mom's place last night. We got off to change trains to get on the overnight train. Turns out there are no regular seats in the overnight train, only sleepers, and they require a reservation..... which we did not have. They claimed to be booked up. So Eric and I slept in the outside waiting room at the train station with two other people that were in the same position. We got about 3 hours of sleep, it totally sucked. We met a cool guy (one of the people crashing with us) who lives in Milano, his name is Onur, I told him I would come down and party with him sometime over the summer.
So we never made it to Venice with the whole train mix up. We ended up in Florence. We are in Florence now and all the hostels are booked up for the night... so we are kind of fucked tonight. not sure what we are doing yet. 24hrs into the trip and off to a great start, hehe .....