Cioccolata e Fragola

Cioccolata e Fragola = Chocolate and Strawberry... Awesome flavors of Gelato :-) Yesterday I rode my bike to the market... all by myself :-) The market is just outside the city center, and all the businesses in Grosseto (and beyond) set up booths and sell things for cheap(er). So I set out on my bike at about 11:30 and finally arrived at the city center at 12:30... and looked around for a half an hour before the market closed at 1... Then I sat down at a bar (keep in mind, Italian bars are American cafes) and figured out how to order something... It was tough, haha. In the middle of the city center (the walled part of the city) there is a wide open space with a statue of the founder of the city and an old church, typical Roman beauty built somewhere around the 1400s - so renaissance architecture. Needless to say, it was beautiful, and I read a book for a couple hours while sitting in the sun. Then I got hot so I found an open gelato shop and got, yes, you guessed it - Cioccolata e Fragola... YUM! Then I wandered the streets, but sadly shops in Italian are open from 8 - 12 or 1 or so, then they CLOSE for a couple hours and open again at about 4:30... although they are all totally different hours. Sometimes restaurants don't open until 7... which would be an early supper for an Italian... So I just looked at all the closed shops and admired the beauty :-) I feel pretty out of place at times - I mean all the women, ALL the women wear skinny jeans, heels or boots, and yes, they are already wearing scarves. Literally everyone. I saw a 70 year old woman in skinny jeans, hahaha. It's kinda funny, but you know that's what's next in America... Then I left, and it took me 15 minutes to bike home. YES I got lost on the way there... it was crazy... And a bike is like a car there, so you have to be brave and ride with traffic... pretty scary! Anyway, I'm just chilling in my room doing homework now, but tonight we're going to the pastor's house for supper. Miss you all so much, keep writing!