DAY 3

There is no lack of fun in Rome. I love it here and it’s only my 3rd day in Italy. Here’s what i wish i knew before I came to Rome. The people here dress REALLY nice. They wear lots of black and everyone wears sunglasses all the time anytime. If only I knew I would have brought more black.

Anyways, today was fun! (i mean what else would you expect other than loads of fun in italy, GEEZ!) I walked a ton and my feet hurt.

this is what we did today:
-took an elevator to the top of St. Peter’s bascillica
-went back to the medici villa for swag (stuff we all get... for free)
-went around the art district of Rome
-saw contemporary buildings
-saw the Pantheon
-went to the mouth of truth (from a Roman Holiday)
-Saw the extacy of st. Teresa





Dinner
Best Italian food i have ever had in my entire life. This was a restaurant that was in Robert’s book. It was in a little back allyway and had the coolest atmosphere. All of the furniture was mixed. The tables were vintage collections from the 1920’s and the decorations were pieced of objects that had been knitted over. Let me descibe this better. The object was underneath the knitting but there was no hole to let the object in. So for example they basically knit over the intire chair. The kitchen was exped by glass and it gave an industrial kind of feel because of the lining.

Exctasy of St. Teresa
I had never been to evening mass before tonight. Hearing it in italian made it much more authentic to me. As a group we walked into the church in the middle of evening mass without knowing. I couldn’t see the Exctasy when we first walked into this small church, and I was sure we had come to the wrong place until we decided to sit down as a group to listen to the mass. When i finally saw it I was surprised by how small it was. Especially for a sculpture by Bernini. But he pulled it off and it was perfect.
Mouth of truthcool, but not as cool as watching it in “only you”... it was locked in a cage and took a really long time to get to. but it was cool. The walk along the tiber to get to it was worth it.

Pantheon
It took us a while to find the pantheon. but when we found it, it was BIG, and when we went inside it was BIG. It kind of blew me back a little bit because of its size. It was probably one of my most favorite parts of the day seeing it peak through the noise of all of the buildings. It didnt’ blend in at all and was AMAZING. Gahh i loved it.

Contemporary Galleries/
Art District/
Art Hotel
Emmie, Robert, Hillary and I used Robert’s cool book to find all of the contemporary galleries in rome. It wasn’t too hard because most of them were in the same area of town which happened to be the art district of Rome. We walked around tons of litte shops and peeped in windows of shops that we wished were open, but were closed due to the holiday. We found this Art hotel (literally called the art hotel) that had great lighting and furniture. Every floor of the hotel was a different color. They used colored plexiglass to line the walls and floors and used really good lighting to illuminate the halls. It was interesting because the rooms had more of an oak and woded them to them with which accents. I dont think that the halls and the rooms worked very well as one piece together, but maybe that’s what the designer was going for. The 4th floor was blue, 3rd red, 2nd green, and first yellow.

Top of St. Peters
So today was the Italian labor day so basically only churches and restaurants were open. Bethanne (the illustration professor wanted to go up to the top of St. Peters. But I wanted to go see contemporary galleries with some other people at 10. So i compromised and did both. Anyhow We got up to St. Peters at 8. Took the elevator for 7euros up to the top. Climbed stairs with a bunch of sweaty stairs. By the way this staircase was VERY narrow and smelled VERY BAD. By the time we got to the top it was 9. And it was breathetaking. the Romans were such good craftsmen. They were very meticulous and worked well with detail. It was 9:30 by the time we got down (it doesn’t take as long to get down as it does to get up)... took the metro back to the hotel, got to the hotel at 10, and no one was up to go to the contemporary galleries.