Grocery Stores are in the Basement

I am at an internet cafe. Our apartment does not have internet like it was supposed to, so posts from Rome are going to be seldom. Here is a quick list of what we have done so far. (The space bar on this keyboard sucks.)

1. Swiss Air is amazing. We were supposed to take United but becasuse of the weather our flights were cancelled. United was super helpful - suprisingly- and we were booked on a Swiss Air flight for later in the day. We got the first aisle of seats in the economy class -- which means 1st service of food and drinks, more leg room, and cool fold out tv's. I will post a picture when we can use Aaron's netbook.

2. Calling random numbers in Italy will not get you Alessandro Lupi. Please see aaronkenter.com for more details.

3. Jet lag is no fun especially when you both feel sick. Going to a museum on days like this is not advised.

4. The weekends are crowded. The driving is crazy, but the cars are smaller, so they may hurt less if one hits you. I will not try to find out.

5. Ancient Romans are the shit. We have seen the Pantheon -so cool- the Coloseum, the Forum, and the Palatine Hill among other things. For all of you who have gone to Rome 2+ years ago, you have to pay for the Forum now. Aaron could not believe this changed, his guide book was wrong, the world did not end.

6. Since we are staying in an apartment (in Trastevere, a great neighborhood) we have been cooking for ourselves. Way more economical! But we needed to find a market. We finally resorted to asking at the tourist information booth. They told us to go into OVS down the street and the basement would be the supermarket. We found the store, but it was a department store, like with clothes and perfume and all that stuff. So we walked down the stairs, and sure enough there was a supermarket. We had to walk through racks of clothes with our eggs and other items to get out. It was just really strange. If we hadn't asked we might be starving right now. So if I come home and start looking for food in the bottom of Macy's or any other such store, please set me straight.

7. Rome is fun, everyone wants to come here. I think there are more French here than in France. I have decided that it must be some sort of school holiday -- there are so many French middle schoolers here. If anyone has insight on the French school system and why they are all over Rome, that would be great!

8. Pizza is delicious, wine is cheap, and you can walk all over Rome seeing random ruins. Aaron and I have taken to calling one of the roads we walk on almostevery day the "Road of Random Ruins." Original, I know, but it works.

9. I will post pictures when I get a chance, but there won't be as many posts from Rome as I had hoped!

10. Bye! And I hate this keyboard.