Amazing Week Part Two - Rosie Comes to Bologna or, How Michael and Maria Learned to Have Fun

Sunday night, after a moderate fiasco with bus stops and there being two H&M's in Bologna, a taxi ride and the walking to the train station, we found Rosie! On Monday I started her introduction to Bologna, gelato-hot chocolate at the AB Tabaccheria included, of course!

The next day we had the crazy idea to drive down to the Tivoli gardens near Rome because Michael promised us they were amazing. Forty miles from the decisive exit, we changed plans and went to Rome instead. We just decided that gardens would not be pleasant during a BLIZZARD! Both my visitors had been hoping for Spring-like weather, but unfortunately all I had to offer them was six inches of fluffy white stuff. The drive back to Bologna that night... I'm just glad it's over. But it was great to roam around Rome!

We laid low the following day, not leaving except to go to class (I brought them along, poor things!) and then again that evening for a snow adventure in Piazza Maggiore. And it was then that they discovered Bombocrepe. Crepes filled with everything from nutella to strawberries to chocolate to mascarpone, to... I don't think I need to continue. But for the rest of the week our activities always revolved around when we could return to via delle Moline 4/A and get another crepe.

A new thing I did with them was climb the tower in the center of town. Tradition states that if a UniBo student climbs the tower, they won't graduate. (Kind of sounds like some other school we know, right?) Lots of steps, very small steps, very old steps. Not the most confidence-enhancing climb, but the view was great, especially as I could recognize a lot of the buildings! Then Rose decided, as official instructor in how to have a good time, that she wanted to go out to the Basilica of San Luca, all the way out there on the top of its hill, and we did. That was enough walking for one day.

And this is enough writing for today, to be continued!

View from the top. The big building in the center is San Petronio.
San Luca is that little poke on the hill slightly right of center.
Yeah, we walked all the way there and back. In the snow.
(Did I mention that it was uphill both ways?)

On the top of the tower, or "It's not a jungle gym, Michael!"

Signed,

the Sengenblogger