MY FIRST GELATO

I was glad when the plane finally landed in Rome. I was ready to get as far away from Ryanair and start my Italian adventure. We bused it to the center the train station and found out hotel, which was nearby. After checking in and putting our stuff down, we set off in search of food. Everyone wanted to go a grocery store and make peanut butter sandwiches for lunch, but I was not about to eat peanut butter as my first meal in Italy. I wanted Gelato. I spotted a Gelateria, which was not hard to find because there is about 10 Gelaterias on every block. I bought my first Gelato and enjoyed every lick of my delicious frozen tiramisu flavor. Victoria decided to indulge with me and then we went and bought groceries for the week and at a supermercati (Italian word for Supermarket).

After our groceries had been stored back in our rooms and our peanut butter sandwiches consumed, we headed for the center Rome. We walked all the way down town passing some pretty impressive buildings that looked like they had been standing since the dawn of time. We walked through the old Roman forum as the sun was setting. Then we walked to the Coliseum for a night view of the ancient arena. It was beyond impressive. I have seen plenty of pictures of the Coliseum, but nothing compares to being there in person and seeing it. We walked all the way around the circular building taking pictures. It was getting pretty late so we decided we would head back for the hotel and find some little Italiano bistro to grab dinner along the way.

We passed several restaurants, but thanks to our restaurant guru Andrea, who has the ability determine a good restaurant like a six sense, we found a perfect like café with wonderful ambiance. It’s all about the ambiance after all. We never ate at any restaurant that had florescent lighting and no table clothes. The restaurant turned out to be very good everyone ordered well. I had cannelloni and brusscetta and a few bites of a tiramisu we all shared. The restaurant was slightly deserted. We ended up being the only people eating dinner there. Our server invited some of his friends over, and they seemed to be having a food tasting while we were eating dinner. They were trying a variety of scrumptious dishes like calamari, lobster, and pesto. I wished we could have joined the tasting party, but our tummies were satisfied with our dinners.

We headed back to the hotel after dinner. Of course being our first night and everything, we got a little lost, but eventually after walking by several homeless people sleeping on mattresses underneath overpasses we found our way to the train station and our hotel.