Thanksgiving turned out better then I thought it would. Dinner with Stacey and Maria went well. We actually just stumbled upon a Thanksgiving dinner at a resturant.
It was something in between Italian food and American Thanksgiving. It invlolved Italian appetizers and pastas then turkey, gravy and mashed potatoes.
But today is rainy and cold and I want popcorn a comfy couch and a good movie. But insded I'm working on fashion photos (which I dislike the class) and I'm just way to tiered to do them.
So as I work on the photos I"m downloading a rented movie from I Tunes and I'll go to the grocery store and find a substitue for popcorn and curl up on my bed, b/c the couch is not comfortable and watch the movie later tonight.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Great food and wine.
So about a week ago my roommates and I went on a free trip to a wine estate in Chianti. Wow oh wow what an amazing trip.
We thought we'd see the cellar taste a wine or two and go home, maybe there would be some bread and olive oil.... Oh no no no no. It was so much more then that!
First of the estate Verazzano is amazing! The land and building is Beautiful. (there will eventually be pictures). The man who owns it talked about the land, the history and his passion for wine. "Do not drink the wine only to get drunk. Do not only drink the wine, drink it with the food, it makes the happiness last longer."
We got to see the wine cellar with the large barrels that are built into the cellar the old bottles of wine, the white grapes drying for Vino Santo.
Then they take us into this dining hall and we sit down at a fully set table, 2 bottles of wine open on each table. One an everyday wine, and the other the chianti classico.
The first course was a great pasta dish with tomato sauce, then we had bread and olive oil on the table. They also served salami, and prosciutto, and boar meat, salad, white beans in olive oil, and then cheeses with their amazing balsamic vinegar drizzled over the top. We also got to try the chianti classico resierva, and then they gave us vino santo with almond biscotti. I've never eaten or drank so well in my life. It was one of the best afternoons I've had since I've been here.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Fall Break. Part 4 - Paris
Click on the pictures for better viewings.
Paris, this is where most my photos are probably, I wish I had had at least one more day there.
The city of lights, and the home of the Louvre, and of course Crapes with banana and nutella, and Ecliars (yum) It was a great time, After I got over the fact that no one speaks English and I know no French. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris
The first day was super cold and rainy, and the first thing I saw was my crappy hotel room. It was in a bad neighborhood and the place was so bad that I didn't use the toilet and the stairs were so badly damaged by water I thought I would fall through. I left, and found a hostel to stay in that was better. But I did take a picture of the view from the first place:
So to get the thought of such an awful hotel off my mind I decided to check out the one and only Louvre! It was pretty amazing. I didn't get a picture of the pyramid underground, but the ones on the above ground level were pretty amazing. The French don't seem to like things when they are first constructed. They hated the Eiffel Tower, and they hated these as well.
The Lourve was amazing it self was pretty amazing. I saw only the biggies, I didn't have time for anything else: Venus de Milo, Nike, The Mona Lisa, and a few others. Lisa is smaller then you would think. I think my favorite was the Nike.
This was the view out side The Louvre. I ate an expensive, but really good sandwich looking at this.
Did I mention that it was cold and foggy that day? But totaly amazing!
This was from the L’Orangerie with Monet’s water lilies. They're in a big white oval room. Just amazing!
Notre Dame-
One of the rose windows, there was mass going on for All Saints Day so I couldn't get a good look at the main one.
All Art Nuvoue fans will know about these famous metro signs.
This is the metro stop right before the Tower.
And this is the Tower, I had no idea it would be sooooo amazingly large!
<------ There's me way at the bottom. 
This was the last thing I saw before I left Paris. It stop raining right before I went to see it.
It was a great great fall break!
Paris, this is where most my photos are probably, I wish I had had at least one more day there.
The city of lights, and the home of the Louvre, and of course Crapes with banana and nutella, and Ecliars (yum) It was a great time, After I got over the fact that no one speaks English and I know no French. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris
The first day was super cold and rainy, and the first thing I saw was my crappy hotel room. It was in a bad neighborhood and the place was so bad that I didn't use the toilet and the stairs were so badly damaged by water I thought I would fall through. I left, and found a hostel to stay in that was better. But I did take a picture of the view from the first place:
So to get the thought of such an awful hotel off my mind I decided to check out the one and only Louvre! It was pretty amazing. I didn't get a picture of the pyramid underground, but the ones on the above ground level were pretty amazing. The French don't seem to like things when they are first constructed. They hated the Eiffel Tower, and they hated these as well.
The Lourve was amazing it self was pretty amazing. I saw only the biggies, I didn't have time for anything else: Venus de Milo, Nike, The Mona Lisa, and a few others. Lisa is smaller then you would think. I think my favorite was the Nike.
This was the view out side The Louvre. I ate an expensive, but really good sandwich looking at this.
Did I mention that it was cold and foggy that day? But totaly amazing!
This was from the L’Orangerie with Monet’s water lilies. They're in a big white oval room. Just amazing!
Notre Dame-
One of the rose windows, there was mass going on for All Saints Day so I couldn't get a good look at the main one.
All Art Nuvoue fans will know about these famous metro signs.
This is the metro stop right before the Tower.
And this is the Tower, I had no idea it would be sooooo amazingly large!
<------ There's me way at the bottom. 
This was the last thing I saw before I left Paris. It stop raining right before I went to see it.
It was a great great fall break!
Fall Break. Part 3 - Vienna
Vienna the capital of Austria, and the largest city in Austria. It's known for it's opera and the Hofburg family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna
This is the view from my hostel:
This is their main cathedral:
This is a tribute to God, asking for mercy from the Black Plague:
This is the inside of the Opera:
The Chandelier
Grand Staircase
The outside of the Opera House:
Famous Swarovski crystals:
This is part of the park of the Schonbrunn Palace.
More of the Gardens, they make the Bobili Gardens here look like child's play. It even has the worlds oldest zoo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nbrunn_Palace
The actual Palace:
Some sort of yummy pastry with a cinnamon concoction inside.
Yummy Sandwich:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna
This is the view from my hostel:
This is their main cathedral:
This is a tribute to God, asking for mercy from the Black Plague:
This is the inside of the Opera:
The Chandelier
Grand Staircase
The outside of the Opera House:
Famous Swarovski crystals:
This is part of the park of the Schonbrunn Palace.
More of the Gardens, they make the Bobili Gardens here look like child's play. It even has the worlds oldest zoo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nbrunn_Palace
The actual Palace:
Some sort of yummy pastry with a cinnamon concoction inside.
Yummy Sandwich:
Fall Break. Part 2 - Salzburg
Salzburg was my next stop for my fall break. It was a cute city, full of green hills, distant mountains, and smiling Austrians. It's known for the fact that Mozart was born and lived there for about 25 years, and the Von Trapp family and their famous singing talent of course. Also another interesting fact, it was the American center of occupation in Austria during WWII. Again the Wiki has more info for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salzburg
The Hostel I stayed in there was cute, and colorful, they play "The Sound of Music" was played ever night at 8pm. The city center is green and beautiful. The birth house of Mozart was sadly disapointing. They tried to make it into something high modern art, but it just comes off as cheesey, though the house he lived in for most of his time in Salzburg is much better. It was fun to look around and see all the places that were used in the filmming of Sound of Music, they used all of the historic center. Sadly the large fountain they sing infront of in the movie was under constrauction when I was there, but in most of my pictures you will see famous places of the movie.
This is St. Peters Catheadral:
This is the main shopping street, everyone has to have a rodiorn sign:
Me and the man of the city:
Winerzsnizel, french fries, and a Salzburg beer:
Some sort of yummy sausage with curry powder in a bun.
Me in the famous gardens used in "SOM":
Part of the open market:
More of the gardens:
This is an old horse fountain, the equivalent to a modernday car wash:
The Hostel I stayed in there was cute, and colorful, they play "The Sound of Music" was played ever night at 8pm. The city center is green and beautiful. The birth house of Mozart was sadly disapointing. They tried to make it into something high modern art, but it just comes off as cheesey, though the house he lived in for most of his time in Salzburg is much better. It was fun to look around and see all the places that were used in the filmming of Sound of Music, they used all of the historic center. Sadly the large fountain they sing infront of in the movie was under constrauction when I was there, but in most of my pictures you will see famous places of the movie.
This is St. Peters Catheadral:
This is the main shopping street, everyone has to have a rodiorn sign:
Me and the man of the city:
Winerzsnizel, french fries, and a Salzburg beer:
Some sort of yummy sausage with curry powder in a bun.
Me in the famous gardens used in "SOM":
Part of the open market:
More of the gardens:
This is an old horse fountain, the equivalent to a modernday car wash:
Fall Break. Part 1 - Trent
The first place I decided to go on my fall break was Trent, Italy. It's in the northern part of Italy. It's most famous for the council of Trent, "(1545-1563) which gave rise to the Counter-Reformation." And it is also know becuase that's where th Wikipedia can give you more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trento.
Trent was a cute little town with friendly people. I thought it was really interesting because I could understand their Italian better because they speak slower, but when in the middle of a sentence they switch to German, it was a little confusing. The town seems like the main strip is where everyone wears their Sunday bests struts their stuff on Friday nights. I enjoyed it, but one day was enough to see it all.
The morning I left was pretty foggy, but gave a cool look the the landscape on the train up. This is near Verona, the famous place of Romeo and Juliet:
These are the Alps my friends! The train ride up was amazingly beautiful, I didn't do anything but look out the window.
These are some of the gardens at the fort where the Council of Trent was held:
This is the main Piazza of the small town of Trent, with a fountain of Posiden and the main cathedral behind..
Me sitting on the steps of the fountain:
The small quaint little town had a nice little park. There was grass and this pond and 'the biggest wikcker duck in the world,' at least that's what the sign said.
This is a traditinoal dish of Trent, I can't remember the name but it was amazingly good.
It was hot and hearty, it was dip your bread in me good, with potatoes and tender beef (seemingly austian) but with Italian spices like rosemary and parsley. Supper yummy.
Trent was a cute little town with friendly people. I thought it was really interesting because I could understand their Italian better because they speak slower, but when in the middle of a sentence they switch to German, it was a little confusing. The town seems like the main strip is where everyone wears their Sunday bests struts their stuff on Friday nights. I enjoyed it, but one day was enough to see it all.
The morning I left was pretty foggy, but gave a cool look the the landscape on the train up. This is near Verona, the famous place of Romeo and Juliet:
These are the Alps my friends! The train ride up was amazingly beautiful, I didn't do anything but look out the window.
These are some of the gardens at the fort where the Council of Trent was held:
This is the main Piazza of the small town of Trent, with a fountain of Posiden and the main cathedral behind..
Me sitting on the steps of the fountain:
The small quaint little town had a nice little park. There was grass and this pond and 'the biggest wikcker duck in the world,' at least that's what the sign said.
This is a traditinoal dish of Trent, I can't remember the name but it was amazingly good.
It was hot and hearty, it was dip your bread in me good, with potatoes and tender beef (seemingly austian) but with Italian spices like rosemary and parsley. Supper yummy.
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