Monday, October 31, 2011

ciao, roma! -- UPDATED w/ pics

October was an incredible month. We loved Roma - the beautiful buildings, artwork, markets, "apertivo" (happy hour w/ free gourmet hors doerves), cappuccinos, "vino svuzo" (house wine - you can even fill a plastic bottle to a wine shop to take home!), our apartment that was walking distance to everything, our 34-hour trip to Florence, hanging out with my Dad, Matt's sister Heather and her boyfriend Will, the pizza, pasta, etc. We'll also miss the attitude of the Italians, who let nothing interfere with their fantastic food and drink - we got shooed away from a restaurant when we showed up at opening time and found the staff just beginning their lunch - with wine! They not-so-nicely told us we can come back in half an hour!

I'd write more but we're running late for our flight to Ethiopia! We'll spend 2+ weeks there before heading to Tanzania - still have some details to work out with that :) Will try update this blog with some Rome pics soon!



cool water fountains abound!

post yoga-in-the-park with heather, overlook roma

sunset hh at fancy hotel for matt's birthday

cool street art

art in vatican

mummy in vatican

pope john paul II

dinner with heather and will

futbol game - roma vs. palermo

homemade zucchini "pasta" with tomato, basil and walnut

homemade eggs in purgatory

mmmmmm....pizza!

homemade antipasti

gelato

riverside in florence

duomo in florence

dome inside duomo

michelangelo's david

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