Random Tidbits

Here's just some things that have been left out here and there. Ricardo and I are doing super just to update. We did actually remedy that situation where we were not making any art and our present projects are coming along very nicely! Ricardo's in particular I think is real innovative and cool. Mine's just pretty. updates on that soon.

here's the dump of leftovers:

There was a chocolate festival for Carnavale! We went three days in a row and in the end didn't buy any gifts because I was too overwhelmed by the selection. Sorry guys. But look! Chocolate Gyros! We had one and it was pretty mind blowing.




Then my cousin came to visit one of her friends who is also studying abroad in Florence so we met up! Ben (her friend and all the way to the right in this photo) Ricardo and I took her around Florence the whole weekend and it was awesome! Ricardo and I gave them the art history heavy tour of the Uffizi and the Accademia, we climbed up to Piazzale Michelangelo (just a platform above the city with a nice view and a bronze copy of the David and where we are in this picture) and we went out to apertivo. Apertivo is this awesome thing that some Italian thought up and now all Italian bars do it. Basically between about 7 pm and 10 pm, you pay a little extra for one drink and then you can eat from the buffet as much as you want! so one drink...all you can eat buffet, for about 7 euro (like 9$). It's pretty great.



a shot from the top of the Duomo.



Lastly, here are some pictures of our Sunday night potlucks! The bottom picture is of our two room mates Anne (left) and Steph (right) who are super duper nice and fun. Our other room mate Hayden is not really around much, hence we have no photos. Anyway! These are from Ricardo's birthday/Valentine's Day which was super fun because a bunch of people brought chocolate and I baked Ricardo a cake and everyone drank more than Ricardo because they kept using his birthday as an excuse to toast! It was pretty funny. We even got candles and sang Happy Birthday and everyone was calling him birthday boy all night, it was nice.