the last days in rome.....

The last days we spent in Rome didnt feel like we were leaving. yeahhhh we drank in our classes and on campus a lot more before, during, and after our classes and finals haha, and yeahhhh we went out a lot more and made excuses for eating out at awesome restaurants every night, but it still didnt feel real. TEAM ROME got together a lot of times, we did our last team theme dinner which was breakfast for dinner, it was very successful as usual, then for our last dinner, the night before we left, we successfully had one of the best means of our entire lives.

I had a friend of a friend call this place we heard of, that many refer to it as the secret place. it is not a real restaurant, it is literally in a mans apartment, and he and his helper or son just cooks us a 6 course homemade italian dinner of a lifetime! we literally had a map drawn out for us, were told we had a reservation for 10 at 8pm, and we were on our way to the greatest dinner everrrrrrr.
we followed this map, took a few wrong turns, then finally saw down a dark alley this man with a large mustache and a dog outside with him waiting for us, these were the clues we were supposed to be looking for..we made it!

we all sat down at our picnic table covered w a tablecloth and out fancy plastic chairs, with this adorable dog playing with us and waited for our meal to begin. due to this man not speaking english, and all 10 of us speaking awful italian, there was little communication, but a lot of words being thrown around that we actually did know such as molto bene! haha. we had 2 vegetable appetizers, fresh bread, home made wine by the jug, 3 pastas, 2 meats, and calamari...by the time they were serving us lemoncello and chocolate we were sooooo full and happy, we were smiling for a long time. then it was time to videotape our favorite moments of studying abroad, it was really sad and cute and funny. we paid our 25euro each which our meal was def worth double that, and to top it off, for the 10 of us he gave us 4 free bottles of their wine, which we clearly had the man open for us before we left so we could drink that night wherever we ended up.

on our tipsy walk home from the restaurant we decided to drink our bottles and head to campo di fiore for one last time. we sat at sloppy sams, drank our wine and a ton of beer, then hugged as a group in the piazza for about 20 minutes, it was awesome and sad and the best ending ever.

that next morning we would all head to the airport and put an end of the best 4 months of our lives...