valentines day

so valentines day is big here, not as big in the states, but there were dudes selling balloons on the street corners. didnt do anything special, went out to gelatto near us(but it is amazinnng gelatto) which was yummy and am now just trying to relax and watch things online.

as for the weekend....on friday i walked like all over rome with jen. we went to the pantheon and found the amazing gelatto place that jessica(sister) told me about, and it was heavenly, we also went to the trevi fountain and i showed jen the beautiful church inside the wedding cake, aka victor emanuel aka the big white building. it was a great day of walking around. we actually wound up at the vatican, didn't take a tour(thats this saturday!) but we went in st petersburg(?) square and just looked around. it was a gorgious day that was well deserved. almost forgot one of the best parts, we found this stand right on the way to the vatican that sells old records. we found joe cocker, hall and oats live at the apollo, debbie gibson and the bangles. all records are 5 euro which is awesome. i almost bought a couple but decided to come back when we had more time. i love finding music in foreign places, especially vinyls there is nothing like a good vinyl.

saturday was a much smaller walker adventure. went to the spanish steps finally. very touristy and went into a massive mcdonalds/mccafe. which was cute but also touristy. we than went to villa borghisi which is romes largest park. it was so nice, museums everywhere a zoo and just miles and miles of pathways and grass and tress and statues. it was nice. we split up after villa borghese when frida(roomate) and i tried to find out way back to the apt using hte bus system, which proved much harder than you would think. we were on 2 different buses and went aorund the same circle like 5 times. we eventually got off and just walked to the tram, which proved to be closer than it seemed.

sunday was hw and laundry day. nothing special. caught up on my reading and hung. went out for ellen(friends) birthday. went to this little resturant in trestevere(a couple of tram stops away from me) where we had an ok dinner. i got a ton of muscles and clams in mine, which was good. but wasnt anythign amazing for the price we payed. although they did have delicious termisu(spelling??). but ya so no for dinner, but a good place for dessert. there are better places in campo di fiori that give student discounts.

which brings us back to today. which was my first roman quiz, worth 60 points(i would love to see how many points the tests are) and then doing some work and having gelatto for my valentines day.

finally got to open up the card my mother tried to secretly hide in my suitcase. it put a smile on my face. all in all a good weekend and looking foward to another nice weekend of raoming around rome before venice!

cioa mi amore <3