tivoli

so the plan for saturday was to go to the vatican finally, well at about midnight the night before i get a phone call from jen seeing if we wanted to the vatican another time and sleep in a lil longer than go to tivoli for the day. Tivoli is a small lil town in the countryside of italy where the garden scene was filmed in the Lizzie McGuire Movie(it has a lot of pretty fountains and waterfalls). so we decided to take the train for 2.30 euro, or something cheap liek that, and go to tivoli for a bit before Jen and I went to the opera.


so we get there at like 9ish i would say and we finally find how to get into town, get a panini for lunch and follow signs to the gardens(d'este) well to our pleasent surprise on our way we stumble upon tivoli's own littel carnivale! there were tents wiht table at least 100 feet long with candy and tables with masks and jewlery. But mostly candy(it was very small just in the small little square of this very tiny town). so before we head to the gardens we walk around. We got to one booth that had a tone of venitian glass jewelry and we get some stuff, and as we are leaving jen calls julie, lisa and me back and to our further surprise the vendor gives us each all pretty bracelets for free. he was so nice, when we didnt like the color/the bracelet didnt fit he gave us new ones! so about 1 minute later julie goes " do you guys remember that episode of friends where joey gets chandler a really aweful gawdy bracelet and chandler loses it replaces it then finds the old one, and hten gives it to joey?" and of course i remember this moment foundly, becuase its friends and i know just about every moment. so taht is when she said, "guys we're bracelet buddies!"

well i have to say, there is some magic in being bracelet buddies, because on our way to the gardens we find a shop that sells cameos. He was the ninth generation to be making the cameos out of shells and blue stones and they were absolutley beautiful. so on a day when i was trying to save money, i fell in love with a cameo and bought one(so much for not buying myself anything else....) but julie and jen also bought cameos. julie got a beautiful one of a women sitting carved into the blue stone and jen got a gorgeous ring. well after shopping for a while trying to convince ourselves in and out of buying hte jewelry we realize the time head back to the candy booth quickly where jen and lisa got a bag full of candy(yummy) and we head back.

well a gelatto place catches( i believe it was jens eye?) but anyway that was closed for the lunch break so we go next door to a pastry shop, where for 1 euro they have most amazing looking mousse filled pastries. jen, julie, and i got a strawberry and vanilla mousse filled pastry and lisa got a pastachio flavored one. and O-M-G they were soooo amazing(pictures are currently up on fb). so once again we witness the power of bracelet buddies.

i wish there were a better word than eat, becuase this was so much better than eating! but after eating the pastry we go to the train station and eventually get on the train, where you buy tickets(no ticket stand at hte stop). and to the power of bracelet buddies again, no one ever came around to collect our money! so we had an amazing train ride home with candy and laughs and then jen and i ran back to our apts to get ready to see the opera! which was amazing.