Tuesday was St. Patrick's Day. So my guy friends who live a couple of apartments down had some kids over and that was a lot of fun!
It was a short week because we didn't have class on Friday. Instead, IES (the program I take classes through) sponsored a trip to Siena for the weekend.
So on Friday we got up and had to be at school at 8 am, which means that we had to get up at 6:45 to be showered and ready and at school by that time. Our first stop was the Fattoria del Colle in Trequanda. Here we got a quick tour of the winery, which only has women working at it and had a traditional tuscan lunch there. They had amazing soup and good meat! After that we
went to Casato Prime Donne Winery and went wine tasting. They only make red wine where we went so that is all we got to taste. I bought 2 bottle
s for my parents and for Jay, Dana and I for when my family visits. After the wine tasting we got back on t
he bus and headed to Siena. We had dinner at our hotel. Again another pretty good meal! And the hotel was really nice too. A bunch of us went out that night and searched around and ended up at a pretty cool pub that had posters and pictures ALL over the walls and played Bob Marley music all night.
On Saturday morning, we got a guided tour of Siena and went to Piazza del Campo, where a famous horse race takes place each summer, Fonte Gaia, Palazzo Pubblica and the Duomo in Siena. Siena was really cool cause it felt like you were back in Medieval times and the buildings were the originals since nothing got destroyed in any of the wars. Later that day we went to San Gimignano to walk around and go gelato tasting. I was in absolute heaven! It was awesome to see how gelato was made and also just as great tasting freshly made gelato. That night we had dinner at a restaurant called "Papei". It was probably one of the best dinner I have had since being in Rome. Great pastas, salad, meat, dessert and wine! Afterwards we went back to our hotel and went out for the night. We found a "shot bar" where the boys had a hay-day buying shots called Bin Ladins, which consisted of only tequilla and vodka. After that we went to a pub/club place that was tons of fun.
Sunday morning we left Siena and headed for San Galgano. We got a guided tour of San Galgano Abbey and the Montesiepi Hemitage. The abbey was neat becasue it housed an actual "sword in the stone". And the Montesiepi was really cool place because it was in the middle of a gigantic field. It was an old, huge church that was still up but kinda overgrown... it looked like it could have come out of a movie. After that we had another great meal for lunch and then headed back to Rome.
Another great week/weekend which was nice because we finally didn't have to pay any money and still had amazing food and a wonderful time!
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