Oh, cappucino.... ti amo! How beautiful and frothy and deliciously creamy you are! How wonderfully happy you make me every morning as I stand at the caffé bar and revel in the most holy of Italian morning rituals, the time of day when I feel like a real local and so in touch with Italy and all its fantastic craziness! Oh, caffé! How beautifully sweet/bitter and dark the caffé espresso is after a three course Tuscan dinner - there is no better way to end such a glorious experience.
How sad I will be when I must part from you and go back to, gag, Starbucks!
All flowery silliness aside - Italian coffee is seriously the most amazing coffee I've ever had. I am so jealous of people who get to live here and have it all the time - these Italians got their pasta, wine and coffee down to an art. It's truly an amazing thing to experience, especially since those three things are pretty much my favorite things in the world. Anyone reading this, if you ever find yourself here, you HAVE to drink as much coffee as you can. The Italians sure do, and they definitely know what's up - I met a guy that has 3-4 espressos in the morning and then a cappuccino later on in the morning after he gets to work in the Mercato Centrale as a butcher. Then, he has another espresso (caffé, in Italy) after dinner. I tolod him he needed to slow down as it was bad for his heart - he told me that his heart didn't need to worry about the espresso, it needed to worry about how pretty I was. I love Italian men! :) I know they say the same things to all the girls, I don't take it to be very serious at all, but damn do they say it well!
I went to Siena yesterday afternoon with our law school people and explored the town and had dinner there - what a place! I loved Siena. The Duomo there is beautiful and that Piazza was HUGE! My friends and I had a couple appertivo and drinks at the squarebefore dinner, which was lovely. If you've ever seen the newest Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, the opening scenes are at the Piazza during the medieval horse races held there on July 6th and August 12th every year. If you haven't seen it, you should check it out.
I will post pictures as soon as I can remember to load them onto my thumb drive (sorry).
Tomorrow I head to Pisa and Lucca with a couple friends. I am looking forward to it. Sunday is Cinque Terre.
Now, back to my paper on the WA State Income Tax proposal and the redistributive/social justice aspects of that...... uggggghhhhhh.
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