Verona, Italy

02/01/2009 Verona, Italy.
To Start off I had a few late nights and early mornings due to class schedules. On this Sunday morning I woke up early got dresses and was ready to head out to meet our driver for 8 am. One of the front gate attendants set up one of his friends to drive us to Verona which is about an hour and a half away from Paderno. As I came down the steps of my dorm to the foyer-ish area I looked out the doors and it was snowing. Being from Alabama we rarely get snow. When we do is not more then an half inch- never more then a whole inch. Needless to say I was excited. (You Tube Link) It snowed on us most of the way there. It even snowed most of the time I was there. Upon our arrival into the city our first stop was for breakfast. We went to none other the McDonald’s. I had a chocolate chip muffin and a cappuccino because in Italy they serve a sweet and simple breakfast. I have not had a decent breakfast in two weeks- no eggs no toast but I have had grits which they call creamed corn and are serve for dinner. After our pit stop we headed for the Arena. This looks similar to the Coliseum in Rome because of the Roman influence in Verona. We were admitted for only 1 euro because it was the first Sunday on the month. Next we headed to see a castle for free once again first Sunday of the month but once we arrived they informed us it was 7 euro because there was an exhibit on display so we declined and made our way around the town. We split up and the ones I stayed with went to find Juliet. We found the little courtyard and it looked just like it does in the pictures- how about that- We toured her house for again only one euro- got to love the first Sunday of the month discount. Of course before I could leave I had to take my picture with her. There are several souvenir shops and they connect directly to the courtyard so we ducked into to them to see what they had- not much of course. One of them is a custom monogramming shop. They have things from aprons to potholders to baby bibs and other novelty item of that nature. The second level to the shop was Club Juliet. We went up and saw clips of the movie and they had a table where you could sit down and write her a note. I wrote her one asking if Romeo was really worth killing herself over. In fact that was my second not to her. I wrote her a note at her home. Think she will respond to that one? Lunch had pasted and everyone was hungry so we found this quant restaurant for lunch called M27. I had a Club Tasty, which is nothing more then a regular club with spicy salami and a different cheese. They also automatically put a hard poached egg on all their clubs. So I guess I have had one egg in two weeks. We continued to walk around the city and take in the sites of a classic Italian city. It snowed on us, it rained on us and it was a cold and slushy day I’m glad I went. We also saw several piazzas which are city centers. In one of the piazzas there was a small ice skating rink set up. I got to see some of the locals ice skate and tried not to laugh when some one fell down.
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