Today we went to the market to buy some groceries. The Mercato Trionfale is the largest open air market in Rome, and is right down the street. It is basically the exact same as the Reading Terminal market, except not all in doors, and way sweet. The fruits and breads are so fresh its amazing. We got three bottles of wine for 5 euro... and the people are sooo nice. I was eating a peach as we shopped and a man asked me how it was as he was moving crates around, I totally caught on to it! So proud. I told him "e squisito!!" which means "its delicious!"
Then we went to the real supermarket to get the rest..we are making our first geuine Italian dinner tonight! Shopping has never been so fun... one thing that amazed me is that their soda section (which is right next to the beer) is about 1/4 as big as ours (as is their beer, or 1/35 of the distributor). Their wine section is about the size of our soda section...
Last night, we went to the Old Bridge Gelateria right across from the Vatican. Let's just say this is almost the Geno's/Pat's of Rome. The line was long but didn't take forever. The young guy who worked their spoke perfect English. He asked where we were from, and when we told him Philadelphia, he was said "Ohh!! Eagles!" and most of us were like "booo but yeahh" and he was like "fly eagles fly!! fly eagles fly, on the way to victory!" and we corrected him by telling him the "road" to victory, only I don't even know if I knew that.. Also, he asked what part of Philly we were from, and when we said North Philly, his only replied was, "Ohhh ghettoo!!"
ps: jess is calling her nun relative right now...private tour of the vatican?
--erica
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