Some funny Roman things

Today some silly things happened. I don't want to give too much away, since some people will be receiving them. I have been meaning to buy postcards since I've gotten here, but always put it off. Today I had some time to kill before meeting Leah and Sam for lunch and I stopped by a store that has a billion postcard displays outside the store. I started to walk away when I saw they were forty cents each, but then I saw a bunch of postcards with CATS. They are so funny; I laugh just thinking about them. They all have normal touristy Roman sites, with cats (I'm assuming) photoshopped in! I want to keep them all for myself, but I guess I'll send them to some special cat-loving people.



Also, last week Leah and I were walking down via del corso, a main street in Rome, when a big chunk of plaster? concrete? falls from the top of a building and smashes on the concrete. Luckily no one was under it. That would hurt big time. Two days ago, there were a bunch of areas of sidewalk partitioned off. But I could not figure out why. Today, they put up scaffolding and I figured out (after walking over the sidewalk and crunching on building) that parts of the building are crumbling! I wouldn't put it past them to just leave the scaffolding there and forget about it. That would be the Roman way. It seems like occurances like this are normal here?

Last, but not least today I had the most expensive and best orange juice of my life. On the way to lunch I walked by cafe arancia (or something like that) in Piazza della Santa Maria in Trastevere which was PACKED with everyone sitting with huge goblets of some orange liquid people watching in the sun. My mouth literally dropped open. At lunch I told Leah and Sam about the glorious looking orange liquid. Sam proposed we go, so we did! Povera Leah though, she had class. We got our orange juice and were so happy! Pretty sure the juice was from blood oranges. Then we started contemplating how much it was going to cost, which we hadn't even thought about. We were both thinking 4-6 euros. It ended up being 7.50! Which is almost $10! BUT IT WAS WORTH EVERY PENNY. I am definitely going back. Maybe not every week, but it is that good.


This is a pic from google, but doesn't it look delicious?!?!?!