Wome, domenica 4/6/08

Hi evewyone..this is Asta on the phone fwom Azwizona.....I'm attending my fwiend Karl's Blogovewsawawy pawty with my sissies and fwiends...it's quite a bash..thewe is mawiachi moosic, dancing, a BBQ(I nevew wealized lizawds tasted so good), and lots of dwinkies..I sat in the hot tub, and welaxed awound the patio...,,

I was picked up by Opus and Roscoe in theiw flying bus, along wif my sissies Momo and Sassy

Pleez stop by and wish Karl,Mrs.Oz and Emil a happy Fiwst Blogovewsawy, and feel fwee to have a dwink..they and theiw maid and butlew awe vewy hospitablethis is a gwoup shot of all of us by Karl


anyway, my Mommi will continue wif my twavelogue while I'm away...I aweady did evewything, all she has to do is post it....

Sunday mowning, we decided to go to the flea mawket in Powto Powtese
it's acwoss the Wivew in Twastevewe.
you cwoss at the Ponte Gawibaldi to weach the west bank of the Tibew and entew the busy Twastevewe distwict, a maze of small stweets, tiny squawes,baws, and westauwants

Heheheh,look at that man. he's asneep and doesn't cawe if we take his stuff ow not
thewe was nothing much intewesting xept a couple of cheapo necklaces that Mommi bought

The pwoud and independant inhabitants of Twastevewe, considew themselves the most authentic Womans...the awea has an eawthy pwoletawian chawactew..this is a place whewe you can still see laundwy hanging outside and old ladies sticking theiw heads out window watching the wowld go by..but it's getting vewy populaw, so that pwobably won't last


evewywhewe I went..I met doggies who wanted to know whewe I was fwom, and why We don't speak Italian?

We agweed that Doggie's would do a bettew job of wunning the wowld and getting along


Thewe is a vewy pwetty Chuwch thewe called Santa Mawia in Twastevewe on a little squawe in the old village..it's fwom the 12th centoowy
when we got to the squawe , we decided it was time to eat something..we had been walking fow houws aweady

Mommi owdewed an individooal pizza wif fwesh buffalo mozzawella , little tomatoes, and awugula(Pizza Capwese)...it was hooge, but the cwust was thin and chewy and pawfect, and the west was a salad so she didn't even feel evil eating evewy last bit of it heheheh(she did shawe wif me)Daddi had gnocchi wif fouw cheeses..I had some of that too...the onliest thing I didn't have was wine
This kittie was guawding the pwetty cyclamen..we saw tons of cyclamen evewywhewe

Now that we wewen't falling ovew wif hungew, it was time to go see the chuwch

thewe wewe gowgeous Byzantine influenced mosaics.........................................the bwight colowing was taken fwom fwesco painting techniques...at least that's what Mommi wead to me

I think the colows awe bootiful

just look at that ceiling..wow!!

The light was weally pwetty when it came thwough the stained glass windows

we walked back acwoss the wivew

I saw this place wif a bunch of Woman Wuins
anytime they want to build something new, they wun into a bunch of wuins,.that would stop Mr. Twump , hehehehe

it was awtichoke season...we ate them a bunch of ways..fwied, steamed mawinated..yummm!

In one of the places whewe they found wuins..they set up a cat sanctooawy
That's the spot where Caesar was actually murdered. Now it houses stray cats who are eventually adopted out after being spayed/neutered, and all of the coins that go into the Trevi Fountain go to the cat sanctuary, to pay for food & vet care. It's across from there that you'd find Feltrinelli, the amazing bookstore with tons of books and music.

it's below the stweet..you can look down thewe..all these homeless catses(some of them injoowed, I saw some wif a leg missing)..but hewe's the good thing...the city feeds them, and vets go and check them out and give them tweatments and medcins if they need it.

I think it's a whole lot nicew than being in cages in a sheltew

we wewe getting close to home and you know what, hehehehe

that's wight
GELATO!!!!!!!!!..
I think I have a sewious addiction, I may have to go into Wehab when I get home

thewe was lots of pwetty wistewia cascading all ovew buildings and walls

come on Daddi let's go home and nap

.thewe wewe all sowts of postews of exhibits all ovew the walls of buildings

latew that night, Mommi and Daddi went out fow a dwink(they wewe invited by the hotel ownew's daughtew)...


she met them at this cool in place.. it's called Gusto, it specializes in fish dishes, but they just had dwinks and hows duvwes

They wewe going to go eat something after the dwink, but they wewe full of hows doovwes, so they just walked home ,stopped fow an espwesso and anofew gelato, and then came home to join me in bed

buona notte

Wome, sabato 4/5/08

This was a vewy impowtant Day! My Pawents 33wd aminevewsewawy!! Daddi and I went put eawly and got Mommi some flowews fow when she woked up

We got hew some bootiful lilies ..she loves the fwagwance

It was a bootiful day and we went up to the tewwace fow bweakfast

I don't know if I pwefew the wolls ow the cownetti..so it's best to go back and fowfth

YUMMMMM!!!!!

just a little mowe pleez

It was satuwday mowning, and I think evewyone who lives in Wome was out on the stweet..this is NOT a pedestwian only stweet ..but they don't cawe, hehehehe

WE got on a bus

The buses awe weally cool

We went to the Museo e Gallewia Bowghese

it's in the Pawco della Villa Bowghese..a bootiful pawk on a hill

These awe some of the mooseum buildings and the gween house

I didn't go in to see the exhibit

These Woman Pines awe so cool...I love them!!!They look like umbwellas

thewe wewe aweady lemons and owanges on the twees in the gawden

Isn't spwing bootiful???

It was wawm, and I got thiwsty

We walked all the way acwoss the pawk to the othew side

kids wewe enjoying pony wides

and the twees wewe in bloom

I saw police on big howsies..a pawfect day fow a wide

hoomans wewe just hanging out and having a gweat day

when we got to the othew end of the pawk, we stopped fow an espwesso

this was the view fwom thewe

A little biped came to talk to me..he only spoke Italian, but we had no twouble communicating

We walked down hill on a winding paf...down to the Piazza del Popolo

Thewe is a big obelisk in the centew(that's like a hooge cement stickie standing up) hoomans sit on the base of it and just watch the wowld go by

Wetawted walking back home along Via del Babuino..it's a supew snazzy shopping stweet that goes betwwen the Piazza del Popolo, and the Piazza Di Spagna
Daddi is splaining modewn awt to me while Mommi goes to get some shoes..hews felled apawt fwom all the walking...honest

Then I wan into a little Westie

All the doggies knew how to speak English, they awe vewy well edoocated appeawantly

back in ouw neighbowhood, neaw the Campo Mawzio, we stopped fow lunch

Mommi asked me if I wanted some pasta....DUH!!!!!

Hewe awe hew new walking shoes..she had to thwow hew ofew shoes away..they litewally fell apawt...I think that's why we didn't gain weight..that's a lot of walking, hehehehehehehehe
acwoss the stweet lokk what they wewe playing in the movies...it No Countwy fow Old Men...we hated it in English, so I don't think we would like it bettew in Italian eithew

the sidewalks awe just wide enough fow one hooman(two if you'we skinny)

This is Via D Convewtite, awound the cownew fwom ouw hotel...Womans like being outside on Satuwday especially...no woom fow caws..I love it!
Thewe is a stowe fow fuwwkids on the left, and just beyond it was one of my pawents favowite westauwants

Aftew a showt nap we wewe off again( this was a long day!)

We walked to the AWA PACIS (MAUSOLEO DI AUGUSTO)...it's the altaw of Peace,,the monument was commissined in 13 BC...in 1999 the awchitect Richawd Meiew designed the glass building to house the monument

The museum is vewy close to the wivew..so we decided to walk along thewe

acwoss the Fiume Tevewe, you can see the Palazzo Di Giusticia

The sun was going down

time fow my daily gelato, hehehe
I went back to the hotel to sneep..I was exhausted..
Mommi and Daddi went fow theiw big deal aminevewsewawy dinnew
Anothew Pawfect day...Mommi was all misty


I hope you'we not too exhausted fwom looking at these pictoowes..I have two mowe days if you can stand it I'm at Karl's blogovewsawy pawty, but I left Mommi in chawge of posting fow me, while I'm in Azwizona