So last Saturday in true "Ellen and Miriam take a trip" fashion, Ellen and I along with our friends headed to Verona. (after racing through the Santa Maria Novella station for a near miss with our train- David and his still injured leg hobbling along after). Verona is incredible. A small city with quaint architecture its streets are broad and beautiful. While it does have its fair share of tourists (over 1600 Japanese tourists at Juliet's house each year, according to dear old Rick Steve's), the crowds are much more manageable- none of the overwhelming tour guided groups of blonde mohawked, graphic tee wearing Germans, or iPod in their ears, Abercrombie decked American students that you get in Florence. The town has actual trees (hallelujah!) and a whole district of designer shops, a coliseum, Roman ruins, a central market full of fresh fruits, a Dante statue, a castle complete with costumed vendors (sorry no pictures of the castle, my camera died) and of course is the home of our favorite star-crossed lovers. After a full day of sightseeing we left Verona with full stomachs, sore feet, fun pictures and sadly no Romeo. But hey we're only half-way through our time in Italy, he's still got plenty of time to come find us right?
Third largest Roman coliseum
The gang: Clara, Anna Claire, Kait, Kassie, Ellen (with little Ricky), David and David
Us in front of the ....
Casa di Giulietta
Didn't see any letters to Juliet but there was plenty of "Amore" graffiti
David and Juliet
Me, Ellen and Clara on the infamous balcony... Clara is actually performing the balcony scene to the applause-giving crowd below
Making our (free) hand-made monogrammed card to commemorate our trip
(Sorry you didn't get one David, but like the guy said, "Just for the girls")
At the central market!
The oh-so-serious Dante (oh yeah, have Ellen and I mentioned we live next door to the 'Casa di Dante'?)
Roman Ruins
The pied piper of Verona
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