Sunday...

Well anyways, I will now tell you about my Sunday, in a rather short post.

First, I tried to go to a Church that I found online (St. Andrews if you want to look it up mom!) It looked really good, and it is somehow tied to the Scottish so it reminded me of my pastor from school too! Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to get there! I looked it up again, and I think I have a better idea of where it is... although the Google maps street view of their address is not what their picture online looks like so we'll see!... I will try again this Sunday!

After that, I got home and I was tired of just being home all the time, so Sunday I wanted to go and see a castle in Bracciano which is only about an hour train ride away. We haven't really done all that much since getting here... Friday was the museum, Saturday I stayed home feeling rather homesick, and sleepy, and doing a little work... so TO THE CASTLE!!

Il Castello Odescalchi di Bracciano is where we went. It translates to "the Odescalchi castle in Bracciano" but I'm not sure what Odescalchi means (if anything). This is the castle where Tome Cruise married someone or other who he's now divorced (as you can tell I don't care much--but say castle and I'll want to see it!). It IS beautiful though! It's located on a hill overlooking this lake:

Bellissimo!

And the castle looks a little like:

Well, it's a little far away, but you get the idea... Here's another:

We were going to go INSIDE and get a tour of this spectacular thing, however, it was closed. Why? Who knows! But they weren't opening it up again until THIS Sunday. So, we can only assume it was closed for some fancy event... and we'll have to try again later.

Meanwhile, I took a few pretty cool shots of it from the outside, and we ate some lunch and looked around the little town.

It was funny because there were kids running around spraying silly string (and spray paint also I believe) at each other. We assumed it was part of their Carnivale celebration for that weekend.
Carnivale is biggest in Venice, where masks are worn and everyone dresses up and it is a HUGE deal, supposedly fantastic but we didn't get the chance to go unfortunately! But other places have little celebrations as well, and we assume that's what this was part of, we saw two little girls in fancy costume-like dresses :)

We also tried a lot of dessert at lunch. haha sometimes it's hard to resist yummy pastries:

That little one in the middle? SOAKED in some sort of alcohol. It was pretty good, but a little strong, and more than I expected (especially because I can't speak Italian so I was surprised to find alcohol in it at all!).

Anyways, Pisa tomorrow!
I'll try and post again by Wednesday on Pisa, I have a PowerPoint to make for class on Tuesday or I'd promise to write sooner!


Talk to you soon!