Adventures of Day 1

hey everyone!! yay the weather is SOO beautiful here today! we've been exploring all morning. We also went grocery shopping which was an adventure unto itself. There are really only a few people here who speak english! I made friends with an old Italian guy at the deli though who sold me "dolci formaggio per una dolci regazza" (sweet cheese for a sweet lady). We're friends now, and this Asiago is to die for, so i'll definitely be back. 

I can't figure out how to write about each picture specifically on here, so i'll just talk about some of them and the text may or may not match up... sorry

i'm starting to feel like living in rome is like living in a really old and detailed ant farm. there's absolutely no order to this city- we just get around by orienting ourselves with the sun. you cant see anything big for way finding. 

the streets are amazing- they're all so unique. the cobble stones are taking some getting used to though.

here's adam standing by one of the largest cars we've seen on the streets. it's not about gas mileage here, it's about who can get the smallest car to be able to go the most places. 

susie laura and mike and i stopped for cappucinos :-)

haha this is my apartment building!

we're attached to the Chiesa Di San Agnese in Agony catheral, which as you can imagine is unbelievable from the inside. our rooms are the third floor windows in the top left of these two pictures. 

dad, i took the picture of the little man on the bike for you- this guy's using his bike to spin a stone where he's sharpening knives, haha.

The big black door susie is opening in that picture is our front door! it's on Via di Santa Maria Dell' Anime, to the back of the Piazza Navona. It's so big and heavy, i love it. And right inside is a beautiful courtyard that's full of trees (and a shrine to mary)

we came upon several new churches today too such as the central nave of Sopra Minerva. the blue in the vaulted ceiling is incredible.

and oh the pantheon! i'll probably have taken like five hundred pictures of it by the end so here's just the corner. it really is something you have to see to believe.

ok that's all for now! we don't have much going on this weekend and the weather is supposed to be great so i'll have a lot more adventures to show you! love you all!