The night life here is amazing! I think it’s because of the heat, but nothing starts until like 10 PM. Or should I say everything starts around 8am, and continues til about 4am. There’s this crazy cool piazza that I can see from my window and it’s ALWAYS hopping at night. It’s one of my goals to go there and see what the heck is going on all the time.
Tonight was so chill and such a great time. We had our official “welcome” dinner tonight at a ristorante called “Il ristorante pizzeria il gatto e la volpe” (The pizzeria restaurant of the cat and the vixen). It was delicious. We started off with pane con l’olio, of course, then had several anitpasti (appetizers) - pomodori e mozzarella (tomatoes and mozzerella - the BEST cheese I’ve ever had btw) and prosciutto and salami, and bruschetta with an olive paste. YUM. Then we ate 3 dishes family style, penne alla vodka, tortellini con funghi, e gli gnocchi. Everything was molto bene!
OMG I almost forgot - on the way to the ristorante, we saw the Jersey Shore pizza shop. Ronnie was sitting outside with a megaphone, looking really bored. Film crews were inside and outside. I would’ve taken pictures but we were caught so off-guard by the whole thing! (Definitely creeping and going back there…) Anyway Ronnie thought my friend was hot, and Italian apparently, because as she walked by he said “Ciao” into the megaphone. He was SO thrown off when she answered “Hi Ronnie.” He looked at the film crew as we walked away and said “How does she know me?!” We were at the end of the block by that point and my friend just yelled “I’m from Jersey!” He was stunned. hahaha I don’t know about you, but in my opinion THAT’S how you great a celebrity. I think she put that guido in his place :).
After dinner we walked to the Piazza della Signoria, aka the Plaza with the fake David. There were statues all over the place! We saw the fountain of Neptune, the civic building, and a bunch of other pieces of art that I’ll definitely know more about after our art history walking tour of Florence tomorrow. There were lions EVERYWHERE and all of the statues looked soooo angry! Maybe something was in the water back then in Florence…
One of the best parts of the night was just hanging out with my roommates next to the Palazza Pitti. We got “Gelato Cocktails” as part of the Gelato Festival that’s going on and just chilled in the piazza. We saw a huge group of men and women performing a Brazilian form of fight-dancing called Capoeira - it’s really cool, definitely worth youtubing or wikipeding (haha just made that up). It was awesome just getting to know everyone and doing some major Italian bonding.
Sorry for the long post! Hope I’m doing okay at this blog thing for all my readers - give me feedback pleaseee it’s my first time and I’m probably being boring haha.
Ciao mi bambini,
Flo
