So this morning I woke up and decided to make homemade chocolate chip cookies for Alexa's birthday! I had bought all the ingredients (or attempted to... Italy has some different ideas on what goes in cookies) and was ready to start the process. I finally figured out how to turn on the oven (in Celsius) and had to use a metal pot as a mixing bowl! The cookie dough tasted delicious but the ovens here cook things so much faster!!! I was amazed! It took me a few tries to get the cookies perfectly baked but I finally succeeded! After cleaning up the kitchen and getting myself ready for the day I set out for class two hours early. It is a beautiful day -- 65 and sunny -- and I was lucky enough to stumble on a little caffe with free wifi and eggs for breakfast that was overlooking the ruins down by the colosseum. I sat down and knowing that I had a few hours to kill began doing homework and falling even more in love with this city. This place too had a large cappuccino and the food was delicious. So there I sat for an hour and a half, doing homework and catching up on work and watching tourists take pictures on this gorgeous sunny day!! Once I walked to school, I only had one class before we headed to the colosseum for a field trip! When we got inside the colosseum we were able to go on all levels of it, which was so incredible. It is so old and you can hardly tell what is what but it was still very cool to envision what it used to be like. When the popes took over Rome they allowed people to take parts that they needed from the building, so there are a lot of holes everywhere where people would take the lead out of the columns. They have signs explaining what everything is all over the building! We went on the bottom level where the high class used to sit and it was an amazing view! After we left the colosseum we walked past the Roman Forum and our professor pointed out what everything used to be. It was very helpful to understand and visualize what everything was. After this, my friends and I went to buddy's for smoothies as an afternoon snack! We then walked around Trastevere killing time until dinner! Trastevere is a very cool neighborhood, a lot more lively than the others! There were street performers all over the place and all the shops were open late. We headed to Tiber Island (in the middle of the river) for dinner and it was absolutely incredible. The atmosphere was very cool and the food was amazing! Here we gave Alexa her birthday cookies, cards, flowers, and wine! After dinner, Justine and I walked home and took a short cut through a public walkway through the Roman Forum. It was a lot of stairs so we got our workout in for the day, but it was beautiful and we decided that we need to explore it in the daylight!