Florence to Cinque Terre

So we wake up the next day, only to notice that Mark had left the Eurail pass in his book, in the first station in florence. So we hastily gather up and check out, then run over to the bus, thinking it would take us back. We quickly realized that the bus took a very scenic route around florence, so we ended up getting a good tour of florence from the bus, extended by the driver's mid route smoke break...

We finally got back to the original station, and the book was not where he left it, with the pass inside. So we got in line to see the ticket guy about the lost and found, and two poeple ahead, the ticket guy jumps up and starts screaming, then closes the ticket office. SO then we ran into him, and he says it all gets sent back to the main station, by our hostile. So we hop on the bus again, and get back to the station, to run around trying to find the lost and found in the sation, only to have people refering us to each other. So to the eurail office in station(which they fortunatey had) and Mark had insurance, so he got the pass replaced. All this while we keep asking about our reservation to go to the next town, which was vague, but everyone said it was fine. So we then got on the train, and when the ticket guy checked it, he said we had to have it validated before boarding, and fined us for it (and we believe pocketed the money). At this point we were glad to be out of florence.

We then got into cinque terre fine, then got into our room with a spectacular view. then managed to find the 5th member of our party fine.