Italy

Over spring break I went to Italy for a week with three exchange student friends. We stayed in a small town called Emilio Reggio outside of Bologna with an Italian former-exchange student friend of ours, Silvia, and her super sweet family. They were great, and it was so cool to stay with an actual family because we got the chance to learn so much more about the culture. It was wonderful! We had an Italian barbeque, went to an Italian birthday party, made Italian pizza. Then we also went for one night to Florence and one night to Rome. Florence was gorgeous and artsy and I loved it. Rome was also beautiful and we got an in dpeth tour of the vatican which rocked but Rome was also incredibly touristy, and I didn't enjoy it as much. Still though, Italy was never really on my list of places I was dying to go, but I fell in love with the country. It was so gorgoeus and the people are so open and friendly and the food, oh, the food! 

Garden in Emilio Reggio

Eggplant/zucchini/carrot pizza

Church in Florence

The Duomo, the first domed building ever constructed, in Florence

The inside of the Duomo

Bridge in Florence that I'm sure has a name but I don't know it

Street view of the bridge

Overlooking Florence from the Piazza del Michelangelo

Park in Florence

Colleseum

View of the pantheon from the collesseum

Fountain of trevi

(The pope is in the background of this picture giving a speech. I have seen the pope in person!)

Vatican

Statue representing the changing/growing world in the vatican

Over 4,400 years old... Crazy

The vatican museum

The last supper