Roman Holiday

Just back from Roma! Spent Friday getting extensively lost by myself en route to the Spanish Steps and frolicking in and out of designer stores with SALDI written all over the windows. Spent Saturday morning in Cinecitta' to see set after set of extraordinarily deceitful styrofoam which completely fascinated me (Gangs of New York was filmed there - isn't that crazy?). After lunching by the Spanish Steps with some friends, Audrey, Aggi and I made our way to the Catacombe di San Callisto to see one of the ancient underground Christian burial sites - very, very cool.

After, we decided we wanted to go to "the mouth of truth" (it's in Roman Holiday, forgive us for being Audrey Hepburn fanatics and really dorky tourists) - anyways, we asked our Catacombe tour guide how to get there, who was standing with a Priest (dressed like a normal Italian guy), who thought my Italian was entertaining, as usual. Long story short, Priest (who I thought could have been in the Mafia based on his constant reference to "brothers" - apparently this was religious) announced to various comrades that "these English-speaking people need to get to la bocca della verita," and then drove us to the said mouth with his sidekick Luigi sitting in the passenger seat giving him directions. As we drove, he told us all about how he has a special pass to the Vatican (including a parking spot - very serious) and nonchalantly told us about ancient landmarks as we drove by them. While making an illegal three-part (at least) u-turn, he turned around and said to us: "ok, now we're doing a little bit of cheating here..." coming from a Vatican Priest, that was one of the most hilarious sentences that any of us had heard in a while. Everyone needs a Roman adventure every now and then. Anyways, pictures!

(Friday)

(Saturday: Cinecitta')

("oh...this isn't a rock...this is styrofoam...")

(the Fellini museum inside Cinecitta')

(La Bocca della Verita!)

(ciao ciao photographers!)

(strolling past Il Colosseo)

Allora, io sono molto stanca! Domani: a much needed day of resting and dancing around in the fitness room before another week of running around Florence. A presto!

Ciao Amori!

Laura