A Beautiful Weekend.

This weekend was beautiful. Saturday was so warm that I needed to take my sweatshirt off while walking around for a while! That morning we woke up and walked over to the Baths of Caracalla. We walked around the perimeter of the Baths and up onto a hill overlooking them. While sitting up there I started thinking about how the ancient Romans were able to build such enormous buildings in such a short amount of time without machinery or any of our modern technology. AND how they are still standing after all of these years! The ancient Romans were geniuses. Wow.


The Baths of Caracalla

After admiring the awesome architecture, we explored the area, which was less dense than the rest of Rome—lots of parks and wide streets—it almost looked like the US if you ignored all of the monuments! We found a little market and shopped around for a while and then wandered back to our apartment where we made a late lunch and started showering and getting ready.

Then we went to the cutest restaurant in the world. It was in the alleyway of an alleyway and really hard to find. Luckily we went with a girl who had been there the night before and knew where she was going. When we made it to the restaurant, we had to walk through the kitchen to get to the dining room. Our waitress was really nice and served me the best lasagna that I have ever tasted! Then, someone from the kitchen came and asked to speak out back with someone from our table. We all thought it was a little weird… but he came back with the check and the guy told him that whenever we go to the restaurant we will get 10% off of our bill! They must have been really happy to have tourists in the restaurant! Then it got even cuter. When we were getting up to leave, the man from the back stood with our waitress and they shook our hands and said goodbye as we walked out the door. It was the cutest place I have ever been to, and I plan to go back many, many times!

This morning I went to get my first Italian breakfast—a capuchinno and a croissant with nutella—with my roommates at a little café near our apartment. Then we went to the largest market in Rome where we were overwhelmed by deals! There were a ton of things to buy there and even though we stayed for three hours we didn’t even make it halfway through the market. We decided that it will be our new Sunday morning tradition since the market is only open Sunday mornings until 2. I can’t wait to go back there!

After the market we came back to the apartment to work on our drawing assignments and hang out since our feet are pretty sore from the nonstop walking that we have been doing the past 10 days.