Blog may 16th, Wednesday

Today we busted the villa Adriana. Which is actually Haidrians villa. Haidrian was an emperor in older roman times, and he built this village, that had a garden with a palace. It house 3,000 people, 1,000 of them slaves. And it's now a bunch of ruins, similar to ostria. And actually only 1/5th of it has been excavated. It was really beautiful, and crazy what they could do with just stones and cement and clay back then, and how it all still remains. After this, we went to the top of the village of tipoli. Where the villa d'esta was located. This villa was by the d'esta family when one of its dudes who's name escapes me failed at becoming pope, so he became a cardinal of the village of tipoli. So he built this palace with an extravagant garden and fountains. It was beautiful and the fountains many of them still work. And they had many mechanical pieces to them. It was beautiful to walk though, and see the view from the top of the mountain. Also one of the fountains had an organ that was pretty old from the 16th century that played
At like 4:30. It also started raining then too, but it was a nice rain. The bus ride home was better than our ride there. It took an hour at least both ways, but the bus was packed on the way there so some of us stood the whole time, while on the way home all of us got seats. Then when we got home it was a supermarket stop where we got necessities, then we went to eat. We stopped at a tourist restaurant, where the guys convinced us to stop and eat, in the end we each only paid 10€ for a at least, 20€ meal. It had free glass wine which was good, and bread, along with coke cola. And a cappuccino for me, along with the lasagna I ordered which Kate ate bc she didn't like her pizza. So we switched, then because it's rude not to eat all your food, I ate the rest of Alex's lasagna, Then they brought out gelato, which we had told our favorite main gelato place we were coming back to get gelato, and so when our restaurant brought out spoons first was hand fed to Kate, then I had to get my gelato through a kiss. then we went back to our favorite gelato place and ordered smalls and got larges with like twelve different favors it seemed like! Delicious, and they remembered us, and told us to come back tomorrow, which we will have to do, ok I have an exam tomorrow. Ttyl! Marsha