Travel Woes Update and excerpts from an awesome conversation

So I am now in Dusseldorf; it is 1:25am, and I am rather tired.

My flight yesterday from Rome to SFO started at 6:20 am. However the first bus to the Da Vinci airport, apparently, gets there at 6:00 am. Which is not soon enough. I probably should have taken a taxi. However, hindsight is 20/20 and it is far too late to change the past. All the flights for that day were overbooked, and the cheapest flights I could get on were over $2000. So I went on the internet at the price of .20 euro a minute to find a cheaper flight... and I found one for about half the price of the others, and snapped it up... before discovering that it left the NEXT EVENING then had a 30 hour+ layover in Dusseldorf.

So here I am in Dusseldorf. UGH.

Anyway that's depressing so here's something awesome from a conversation with my friend Cambria: (edited for clarity and conciseness)

9:13:16 PM Cambria Scalapino: what was the weirdest thing that has happened to you so far?

9:13:22 PM Mitchell Owen: Hmmm

9:13:57 PM Mitchell Owen: Candidate: being solicited by a prostitute

9:14:24 PM Mitchell Owen: Candidate: discovering a square filled with Harry potter posters

9:14:57 PM Mitchell Owen: Candidate: returning to a hostel and passing the David at sunrise

9:15:17 PM Mitchell Owen: Candidate: tossed my drink on someone

9:15:36 PM Cambria Scalapino: ...was it on purpose?

9:15:41 PM Mitchell Owen: Yes

9:15:36 PM Mitchell Owen: Candidate: had people debate whether or not I was gay

9:16:17 PM Mitchell Owen: Candidate: bought a glorious sparkly pink hat which is my best friend and we have followed each other everywhere

9:17:38 PM Cambria Scalapino: oh man HATS.

9:18:34 PM Mitchell Owen: Candidate: talked to a stranger about my Tegmark multiverse theory of self and applications

9:19:14 PM Mitchell Owen: Candidate: stayed up until all hours talking to Christians about my religious beliefs

9:19:21 PM Cambria Scalapino: XD

9:19:56 PM Mitchell Owen: Candidate: a philosophy student from Oxford got totally wasted and was hilarious

9:20:13 PM Mitchell Owen: Candidate: carried a German girl most of the way up a hill