Day 4: Sunday in Roma

Moscow Mule: 1, Liz & Colette: 0. We slept until Caterina, the owner of the B&B, barged into our room, assuming that we were gone. I suppose most tourists are out and about by noon but we are not your average tourists. Eventually we got up and took the bus to Villa Borghese for a leisurely afternoon in the park. There was a cute book fair and a horse jumping competition, but we continued on to a lake with rowboats and then a grassy field full of young couples in love. We grabbed sandwiches at a little café in the park and then had some Unilever ice cream; Liz had a Magnum and I had a Cornetto. My friend Sarah had worked on Cornettos (the Italian version of a Good Humor Drumstick) for her summer internship project and I learned from her presentation that the Italian cones are the best in the world, so naturally I had to try one. It was pretty good but there were some soggy spots, so there is room for improvement in my opinion.

After admiring the view from the top of the park, we went down to Piazza del Popolo and walked down Via Margutta, one of the best streets in Rome. Then we hit up the Trevi fountain (possibly my favorite place in the world), the Pantheon, and Piazza Navona before we realized that we were walking around like zombies and needed to eat something. I’m tired of writing about food so I’ll just say that dinner was amazing and I recommend Osteria La Quercia to everyone. They had some great art but my favorite was a take on Da Vinci’s Last Supper but instead of the apostles at dinner, there were some of the greatest artists and thinkers.

Other things to note:

• I bought a kick-ass jacket that I am now obsessed with

• We still don’t have out Croatia plans set and we leave in 2 days

• I love Italian waiters. So cute and so attentive

• I bought an awesome motorcycle poster but I’m not sure what I am going to do with it

• Tori arrives tomorrow

• They have these crazy miniature ponies in the park that little bambini ride on
  

• I wore a ridiculously Euro outfit today and Liz was embarrassed to be seen with me

I will end today's post with a deep thought from Liz. While we were admiring the scenery in the park today, Liz was deep in thought and I could tell that there was something heavy weighing on her mind. I asked her to share said deep thought and she replied, "Can birds smell?"