Settembre 24, 2010
This morning I went to the park and worked on abs and chest again... yesterday was a run day... tomorrow's a nothing day. I think I found a more logical way to work out... abs in one area group them together and chest/arms in another area grouped together... this way I don't have to walk back and forth between them, wasting time. I just go and do all of the arms and chest near the pull up bar, then after I finish 3 rotations through the exercises, then I go over to a nice clover patch to do abs... then I do those exercises rotated through 3 times. This works better... at least until I decided to start doing another workout type...
Right before lunch I headed to the Pantheon in hopes that the facade had been finished so I could get a decent picture of it... alas, still hidden by monstrous scaffolds and men carrying buckets and tools. I decided that since I was in the area, I should head over to Piazza Navona and Campo di Fiori. Campo di Fiori is for the most part this large piazza that is full of vendors selling cheap souvenirs, fresh fruit or vegetables, or even meats and cheeses. It was kind of fun to walk through and see different things.
However, Piazza Navona was indescribably beautiful, however, I'll do my best to describe it to you. So, some of you may or may not notice from my photo albums and pictures I generally take, I like taking pictures of clocks and fountains. Piazza Navona is also known as Tre Fontane, meaning three fountains... in the same PIAZZA! In the center of a long oval piazza there is an immense obelisk and at the base of it is a huge fountain that has large sculptures of men and lions and all sorts of cool things... breathtaking. Then on both ends of the piazza there is another fountain, slightly smaller, but still beautiful in it's own way. On the other side of the fountains as I approached, there was a HUGE domed, arched building that was amazing as well, Dile later told me it was a church. FINALLY, to put the cherry on top of this phenomenal locale, one half of the piazza is filled with artists selling and painting beautiful works of art. I found one artist I am particularly drawn to his work. It has bright colors or muted hues, all with beautiful brush strokes... I will eventually buy one of the paintings... I found one picture of red poppies I'd pay probably 75 euro for, but I think that he'll end up offering to sell it for less... but I love it. (I went back the next day to take pictures since the weather was not ideal the first trip)
When Nicolo got back from school, we read his book for next week, but he still has to write two pages of a review of the book, memorize a poem, finish his math, and is Italian history. He'll be really busy this weekend so I don't know when he'll work on it, but I know it will happen.
Raffa and Giorgio had a lot of friends over so we went downstairs and watched Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco... tear jerker... when Chance gets... well I don't want to ruin it for any of you that didn't watch it 100 times is primary school. ;)
Tomorrow Iacopo, brother, gets here for his birthday... I think the family has a lot planned, I'll just see where the day takes me. :) Hope you all are doing well.
DIVERSE CITY!
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