Italy Pages, Once Again

Here are some pages dating back to early February. Almost March now, and prep for Sicily/midterms is in full swing. And by full swing, I mean I'm doing this and running around being social rather than studying.

I went to the Vatican

Britt-ish Designs: Let Down Your Hair; Log Your Memory: Vacation Template

The next week we had an excellent Tuesday trip to Alba Fucens. It's a little bitty (relatively speaking) Roman colony out in the mountains. They're currently excavating the Forum, and they have a chunk of the city done as well as the amphitheater. 

Scrapmatter Design Team: Connect; Mandagirl: Template 52; Suzy Q Scraps: {Stash Builders} Simple Paper Alphas 2

Everyone was psyched about the amphitheater, and the spirit of past gladiatorial games overcame us.

Anna's F-A-L-L into Fall Template; Scrapmatters Design Team: Connect; Suzy Q Scraps: Simple Paper Alphas 2

We also had one of our first autopsies, which required going to different bits of the ruins and identifying them as best as we could.

Suzy Q Scraps: Simple Paper Alpha 2; Simple Scrapper: January 10 Template; Stolen Moments and Jenn CK: Aviator

At the end of the day, there were also a couple of student site presentations in the city around (and of) the Porta Maggiore.

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Our Thursday visit was much more low key - we only needed to take the 44 to the Forum Boarium for some temples, the Arch of the Argentari, and Tiber Island.

Britt-ish Designs - Never Grow Up; Mandagirl - Template 57

Here's where my descriptions/pages start getting out of order. For art history, we went to Santa Maria del Popolo, which is absolutely gorgeous and randomly has two Caravaggio's in a side chapel.  There is another Tuesday trip where we went to Gabii, Praeneste, and saw the Navi di Neme, which are the remains of the remains of Caligula's pleasure boats (best Adam quote of the day, said to himself while boarding the bus to depart: "And now to my pleasure bus").  Thursday was relatively low-key; we went to the Baths of Diocletian, and both toured the museum and worked on an epigraphy assignment.  

Britt-ish Designs: Riverbend

For art history, we went to the Castel Sant'Angelo, followed by the Capitoline Museums. They have a rather nice short exhibit on Da Vinci (as in, one painting).  Unfortunately, we had to cut our time there short as we simply had to go home for a demonstration in Limoncello making. Our ticket was still valid for a few more hours, so a few of us went back to the museum for fun and games with the busts.

Our ticket the Baths of Diocletian got us in to a few more museums (Palazzo Altemps and Palzzo Massimo, both of which I highly recommend), so we ended up checking those out on Saturday. Combined with our trip back to the Capitoline on Tuesday for the City course, it ended up turning into: LiviaQuest 2011 (she and Augustan dynastically-influenced building projects are my favorite bits of Roman history).

Kits from Scrapmatters Design Star Competition Round 1

A bit more shopping is on the agenda this afternoon - there's a hosiery shop that supposedly has amazing tights down by Largo Argentina. Tomorrow will be spent prepping for a Latin midterm and site report of the Porticus Octaviae (Augustan dynastic building! My favorite!).