i forgot something verrrry important....

a few days after i got back from marias wedding, back in november, me,devon and the 2 other ppl in our physics group had told our friend max that we would come to his house for dinner b/c he wanted us to experience dinner at a real italian household. we clearly were all for a free fantastic meal, but when the day came, it looked liek devon and i were the only 2 attending this dinner. we felt soooo awkward before we went, i told devon about 5 times i wasnt going and was leaving her to go alone, but i went and im so happy i did. max drove us to his apartment about 20 minutes away from school, but still in the city, but he lived in a more upper-class residential area of rome. he said we;d be eating with his mom, dad, and his sister and her boyfriend. he said the dad spoke zero english, the mom knew some, and the sister spoke it very well but was too embarrassed to talk to us in english. this would be interesting...

when we got there the place was really cute and homey. they hugged us hello, none of us knew what we were really saying to each other, but we made our way over to the dinner table while the mom finished the last parts of the meal and the rest of the fam did there own thing before dinner. we sat down and there was a platter of fresh mozz balls in all diff shapes and sizes, as well as some bread and wine. we knew at this moment we were in for a great dinner haha. then as the fam came to sit the mom brought over the rest of the appetizers. these included fried olives, potato croquettes, fried zucchini flowers, and some thing that looked like pound cake but was really made of cheeses and egg and something else, everything was fantasticcccc. we were full already but it was time for main course #1. this is when the mom brought over a huge dish of pasta in a broccli sauce. i cannot describe it, i hate broccoli, but this delicious and i ate everything on my plate. time for round 2...lasagna! i was in heaven, thats all i have to say about that. then round 3, pork wrapped in turkey, wrapped in heaven. not only were we overly stuffed and satisfied, then they brought out gelato and sambuca and metaxa, and lemoncello. this was one of the best meals i had in my life, despite the lack of communication at some times during the night, all in all we had a fabulous time.

on the way home, max thought it was funny to drive us down this rd where allll you see are tranny hookers. this was interesting. he said that b/c its a rich area, the hookers stand there b.c rich business men will pull over often for a quickie of some sort. this is when max pulled over with 2 scared americans in his car, asked in italian how much for a threesome, the football player looking hooker peeked in the car, told him there was too many of us and thanks but no thanks haha. what an interesting but great night haha