La neve a Roma

Roma and snow don't mix. At all.

We were supposed to have a makeup day on Friday, for a day we have off later in the year. It was raining in the morning, then started snowing. Mind you, I think the last time it snowed in Roma and stuck was something like 1986. My class wasn't till 2:30 and by 2pm all afternoon classes were cancelled. Apparently, they want to have a makeup day for the makeup day, but I have no clue how they are going to do that... Leah and I spent the day at the library as usual and then waited for the bus. For about 30 minutess. Realized what we should have realized in like 3 minutes, that the bus wasn't working, and walked home. It was pretty treacherous.

Saturday Leah and I were supposed to go to Orvieto, and woke up bright and early to go to Termini. We looked out the window and found about 4 inches of snow on the ground. It was really pretty! We walked to Piazza Venezia, which is like the hub of transportation so we could get a bus to the station. It's a pretty far walk and was a little rough with the snow. Few people were out and we took some pictured. We arrived at Termini 9 minutes after our train should have departed. So, we just decided to buy a ticket for a train leaving about 2 hours later. We waited and kept checking for the track number of our train on the departures board. We started getting nervous and as Leah was watching the board about 10 minutes before our scheduled departure, the train just disappeared. Bummerrr. And I tried to refund the tickets yesterday with no such luck. Trenitalia owes me about 40 euros at this point...

We walked around and went to lunch. Got suppli, which is a fried rice ball with sauce and mozzarella. It was DELICIOUS. We also got salmon pizza. Went home and did nothing since we STILL don't have internet and there was no way that I was going anywhere.

We decided we would try to go to Orvieto the next day and planned to leave the apartment by 7:45, but woke up at 7:45 and decided it wasn't worth it. Instead we ventured out of the apartment planning to go to a museum. We got to the Capitoline museum, which I was pretty excited about, at 11:30 only to find it CLOSED. Big surprise, right? The sign right next to the barred door read: Open Sunday 8am to 9pm. Ugh. So instead we walked around more! Went all the way down Via del Corso which ended at Piazza del Popolo, an area of the city we had never been to. Did some shopping. Bought a denim button up shirt, which I have been in the market for, for a while. By this time my boots were starting to get wet. This made me very unhappy. I am on my last pair of shoes I am willing to wear out in gross weather because the other two pairs are STILL WET. Not cool. At this point, I transformed into one of the people I often make fun of: hopping around puddles and tip-toeing through snow. We eventually made it home by taking three different buses (a venture that took over an hour).

Then we were going to go to the library, but Leah texted her friend just to make sure it was open and good thing she did because she found out that the library was closed and classes were cancelled for today (monday)! This meant still no internet. And I had already finished season one of Breaking Bad. Leah called her friend Sam, and we went over to her apartment to use her internet. By the time we got home again I said I don't care about the super bowl, it is cold and I am tired. So I just watched more Breaking Bad (I downloaded some of season 2 at Sam's) and hit the hay.

Our weekend didn't turn out too bad, even though there were many setbacks. We got to see a lot of the city we hadn't seen before. Now to plan next weekend...