Mid-Week Gelato and Concert

Tuesday night, Meghan's family invited us all over to the big apartment they're staying in while they're here, and they made us dinner! Bread with goat cheese (which was awesome), salad, spaghetti, and mini strawberries and chocolate. It was so nice of them! We all had a great time!

Wednesday, Hannah, Meghan, and I went to another free school activity: Gelato Making! First, we had to put on these ultra-fashionable hair nets.

Yeah. . . That's a new scarf. . . I needed a SPRING one. ;)

Then we got to go behind the scenes in a gelato place. The guy, Francesco, asked what our favorite flavor was. We were in a group of five girls. We unanimously chose chocolate. (Duh.) So, we made chocolate gelato! (er. . . watched him make it. . .) First, he put two different kinds of cocoa and a big piece of a chocolate bar into a container. Then he added hot water and mixed it all with a giant mixer.

Pouring Cocoa Powder
If you're wondering, his hat says "I heart Gelato"

HUGE Immersion Blender

Then, he added a base of milk, sugar, etc, that is made in a machine and used in every kind of gelato. He mixed both mixes together and then poured it into this gelato maker, which costs, like 25,000 euro or something ridiculously expensive.

Pouring it into the Machine

A few minutes later, we had gelato!


Gelato!

And of course, we got to eat a lot of gelato. I had a peanut butter flavor, cookies flavor, and a Florentine cream flavor.

Wednesday night, Meghan was hanging out with her family, and Lindsey, Brittni, Hannah, and I went to the TRL Awards concert at Santa Croce. We underestimated how big it was going to be. It was just about as crowded as Carnivale in Venice!

The whole concert was Italian artists, but it was still pretty fun, even though we couldn't understand the words. (There was at least one song in English, though!) We stayed for a while, but then the crowed was starting to be too much. Lots of smoke, glass bottles shattered on the ground, and I was wearing sandals. . . We were all tired and went home.

Santa Croce Lit Up

Lindsey, Hannah, Brittni, Me at the Concert

That was yesterday! Today, we cooked swordfish in Food class. I'll blog about it tomorrow!