This past weekend my roommates and I went to Florence with API. They set up a great weekend for us complete with a cooking lesson, a wine tasting and a tour of Florence. None of those things, however, compared to seeing my best friend. :D But I'll start from the beginning.
Friday morning I woke to the lovely pitter patter of rain. Wait, rain?! Yup, our lovely weekend forecast reported maaaany lovely reunions with the precipitation. It was only a drizzle when we left, however. At the rest stop, it picked up a bit more, and when we arrived in Florence, I thought we we drove into a giant waterfall. The good news is that it stopped pretty quickly. After the tour of Florence, I met up with Keara and Joe. :):):):) That was literally all I wanted this weekend. We chatted, walked around, chatted some more, and eventually made our way over to what Keara calls her apartment. I called it the mansion of apartments. It makes my cute apartment over here look like a pea. Later on we went met up with their friends for an appertivo. At restaurants, you can buy a drink for about 7-13 euro and then get an all you can eat buffet of appetizer foods. Keara and Joe's friends made their own appertivo for everyone. Mmmmm.... molto bueno.
Saturday I woke up and got to see my boyfriend, Dave! I have been dying to see him.
I just wanted to comb my fingers through his curly locks, and pinch his cute butt. Of course, I didn't because the security guard wouldn't even let me take a picture of him :( (I didn't take this picture of him to the right, I got it offline) Well, I mean, I would have to climb on a ladder to reach him, anyways. He's pretty tall, and he simply took my breath away. Silly Katie tried to steal him, we both agreed I love him more. In a side note, remember me talking about Michelangelo's Moses and how it was supposed to originally be composed of 40 statues? Well he started to carved 4 more of the statues, but he never finished them. When Katie and I walked in the museum, we saw those unfinished statues!! Neither one of us knew they were gonna be there, but we both flipped out in excitement.
After I parted from my love, I went on to devour a heavenly lunch. It was called ribollita. It's a Tuscan soup made of bread and veggies that is cooked for hours and hours until it smells like heaven and sunshine. Well, that's at least what I thought it was. After lunch... MORE KEARA AND JOE TIME! We went a Leonardo da Vinci inventions exhibit. It was preeeetty cool, as Keara says. Alright fine, she doesn't really say that. In fact, she hates when our friends say that. Anywho, we then walked around and got this waffle with nutella on it! Only after we finished them did the three of us remember that Keara gave up sweets for Lent. Then came the worst part of my weekend: saying goodbye.
However, my mood improved when I made the greatest gnocchi, eggplant, and tiramisu, EVER. I have officially promised my Papa, mom, dad, sister, Charlie and Meredith that I will make homemade gnocchi for them when I come back home. If you would like some as well, I am currently taking reservations. After dinner, my roommates and I went to grab a cider at a bar, and I literally ran into Kerri Soscia!! Totally unexpected and not planned. We had been trying to get on touch with one another, but kept missing each others calls. We had kinda planned that we were just gonna see one another next weekend when she visits Rome, but there she was! Standing in the bar! Celebrating her birthday! I was immensely excited to see her.
Sunday, while I woke up to the unpleasant sound of my alarm clock, I was happily greeted by a delicious croissant. I packed in 0.52894 seconds (I timed myself) once I realized that was the amount of time I had until I had to be on the bus.
The group and I went up to Piazza Michelangelo where we saw a GORGEOUS view of Florence. After that, we visited the small, but breathtaking town of San Gimignano. Imagine climbing up the cobblestone streets of a small, residential town, to reach a tiny hill where you look out onto the breathtaking Tuscan hills, watching the sun inch across the vineyards as you listen to the soft, soothing sounds of the harp playing behind you. Literally (as Kelsey would say), not kidding. I can die happy after visiting San Gimignano. It was everything I wanted to see in Italy.
We got back on the bus for about 15 minutes to travel to our wine tasting. About 10 of those minutes we drove through the vineyards of the winery were going to. When we finally arrived the place, we met the craziest, funniest guy.
We spent the next few hours with him as he explained the ins and outs of wine. He also served us food where I ate even more delicious ribollita than before!! I also tried truffle oil for the first time and I have to say I was not impressed. After I took my picture with the guy (below), we departed for home sweet Rome.
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