Today a group of us went "downtown" to do some of the major tourist attractions before we got too caught up living here and forgot to do the sightseeing things. We went to the Colosseum, Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps. It was 4 1/2 hours of solid walking and afterwords I was so exhausted and my blood sugar was extremely low. (The giant gelato we stopped for obviously wasn't enough.) I didn't know what to do or say as I looked among many of the sites because it was just so amazing to me that I get the opportunity to live in such a historically rich as well as beautiful city for four months. I definitely want to go back to the places on a day when it is sunny out, but we had a really good time walking around and it wasn't very cold.
After all the wandering our legs really couldn't take it anymore. We had a successful day (even grandpa was nice to us and his wife/daughter/the other owner returned my chapstick that fell out of my pocket there yesterday.) and decided to take a few hours to rest. Although, the time wasn't all the restful seeing as I cut my finger open badly preparing dinner (apparently my face got pretty pale... you guys know how I get with blood) and then I dropped and shattered a bottle of olive oil across our kitchen floor. Our other apartment-mate made Gabby and I blood-orange juice mimosas (no pun intended from my finger) then we just got back from meeting up with some friends downtown.
Tomorrow will be another relaxing day and then on Sunday (the last day of my 7 week vacation from school) they are taking us on a big trip to the mall since there are huge sales here. But for now... BED! good night.
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