Well, there are certainly many things here in Italy that you really don't see everyday. Some really great things in fact. For example, you walk to a window in a museum, and there's beautiful little view of Rome out the window. Or you're walking in the country, and there's the cutest little pig roaming around with shaggy dogs and purring kitties. And the pig just oinks and oinks, hoping you have food. Or when the Italians offer you a wonderful breakfast full of sugar, which resembles an Elephant Ear from a carnival. But no, they just ask you to please have some more "pizza".
I keep finding these great little things here in Italy that just don't seem to be real. I look up at the sky and see these beautiful clear brilliant blue skies and just laugh. I always thought those Italian Renaissance painters over-exaggerated those brilliant blues. But in fact, they are real.
Well, we have been on a lot of adventures lately. We've been on a nature walk in Abruzzo. We've roamed the beautiful little town of Orvieto. And we've tasted wine and olive oil and stuffed ourselves with a huge multi-course meal in Umbria. And of course, we've been visiting all the best museums here in Rome: the Capitoline and the Borghese Gallery. We saw some gorgeous Caravaggios and Titians, Raphael, Bernini sculptures, etc. The art amazes me. We also visited a wonderful Bellini show.
With all these exciting things comes even more - we're going to Florence and Sienna this Thursday!
Of course, with all this traveling around, we're bound to get bored. So what do we art students do? That's right. We make value scales. What can I say, Rome brings out the best in us. :)
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