Food!

It is 8:30 am here. I am waiting for Aaron to get out of the shower, which could be another 30 minutes at the rate he goes but most of you knew that already, so I am going to write about the food.

So after we found out about the grocery store in the basement, we got some pasta, tomatoes, carrots, tomato sauce (they actually do sell it in a jar here, but it tastes way better), olive oil, and cheese. These were the staples of our diet for two weeks. Oh, and chicken and eggs. We needed some protein in there too. As well as tea and nutella. Now I think you have our entire list of food. The vegetables are really good. I am not the biggest fan of carrots, but I like them here. Also, one night we splurged a little and got some zucchini's. Yum, yum, yummy, yum. I really liked those, but the veggies are kinda expensive, so we only ate the ones that were not over 2 euros/kilo. Also, it is artichoke season here, but I don't know how to prepare artichoke, so I am waiting to see if a restaurant has it. I tried to order it once at our favorite meal we ate out, but it had been all eaten by the time we got there for lunch at 2:30pm. Bummer. The fruit looks good, but I haven't eaten it. They make fresh blood orange juice on the streets here in Napoli, and I have been dying to try some, but it would induce a severe allergic reaction from drinking all that juice, so I will just stay away. If you didn't know I am allergic to fresh fruit. That's why I have only smelled it up to this point. I am trying to stay alive this trip, and eating fruit is not a good way to keep up that goal.

As for the meals out, they have been good. Our second to last day in Roma we went to a little place between Vatican city and our apartment. It was great, and the wine was my favorite there. Two days ago we ate at the place aforementioned where they ran out of artichokes. It was cheap and delicious. We both got second courses because everything was under 5 euros. The lasagna was so good. Really simple, just noodles, sauce, and cheese. Then last night we ate out for the first time in Napoli and went to a pizzeria that was over 100 years old. It wasn't a local place, we heard more English than Italian there, and it was a little overpriced for the area, but the pizza was really great nonetheless. I had pizza with cheese, ham, mushrooms, and peas. Yes, peas on a pizza, weird, but really good.

Now it is off to the hotel breakfast. We'll see how that is!

Oh, and thanks for all the comments. I was looking at Aaron's blog this morning and saw that some of them were directed at me! Yay! Thanks very much, I appreciate them.