Siena

Last weekend Sam, John, and a few friends from the CSU program went on a day trip to Siena. It was a gorgeous day - and we started off the day at a small restaurant that served "poor man's food." I had ribollita and pork in wine sauce. Then we went to the piazza (where in the summer, they hold a huge, insance horse riding race) and had some gelato. Siena has three musuems, and we visited each of them - the Museo Civico, the Santa Maria Della Scala, and the contemporary exhibit (the current featured artist was an American named Gordon Matta Clark). Some of us also went into the Cathedral there, which is one of the most expansive and beautiful churches I've seen so far.



The next day, we went to Santa Croce where they were having a so called "international fair" - but the featured countries were only Germany, Austria, France, etc. There was one booth that we thought was American, because it had Indian-made purses and a life-size wooden figure of a Native American with the headdress and traditional clothing.

Visit my facebook album of the trip! (It was getting too hard to upload photos on both facebook and blogspot...)

This weekend has been pretty laid-back so far! Sam and John went with some others to Cinque Terre but Sara, Gaby and I are trying to save money for the Amalfi coast and Capri for PLP break and Sara's birthday on the 31st...and Gaby has been on a cooking streak this weekend! Caramel baked pear with raisins, and a mozzarella bake with all our leftovers (like zucchini, beets, cous cous, tomatoes...) were highlights---

Small thing -- this is the supermarket we like to go to: (hopefully we can start going to the San Ambrosio market, when we get used to its hours)