We had a quick lunch and then headed back to St Peters only to find a ridiculous line and it would have taken hours to get into, so Giudi decided we would come back tomorrow. On we went to the EUR… The Fasist district of Rome, while all you architecture folk and maybe some others know what this us, it was over my head so I quietly pulled out the iPad and caught up on some reading for school. Unfortunately, when we get back to the hotel at night I am done for, so the school work has been slacking.

Last spring one of the students that was studing over here blogged about going to The Ice Bar and I thought that it looked really cool, then the map that I picked up last time we were in Rome had an advertisement on it, so I was determined this time around, regardless how cheesy and touristy to go. The two grad students girls, Nick and I snuck off on our way back to the hotel to seek it out. We found a little door down a side street, where there were two men standing behind a desk next to a rack full of thermal parkas. We paid our fee and made our way in, thanks to my trusty map we got two drinks each for the price of one! It was a fun experience, not something I’m rushing back to do, but glad I at least got to do it once. And I learned a very valuable lesson, not to wear rubber rain boots in the cold, it took well into the evening for my toes to thaw out….