End of my Adventures

Tomoro morning we leave on our jetplane back to the U.S.  It has been a whirlwind adventure for all us, and it is a bittersweet feeling to be leaving.

Our last week here we had our slow foods movement through Orvieto, sampling food and wines from multiple restaurants and venues.  It was a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon, laughing and dining with friends.
The rest of the week was a scramble of sorts. Many people tried to fit all of the things we had not done yet into one week before we left.
We held our exhibition of work on Wednesday and we invited all who were a part of our amazing semester to come and look at our works.  We saw many friends and had the chance to thank them properly for welcoming us into their town.
Friday night was our Goodbye dinner.  It was held at L'Antica Rupe, which is this very nice, almost modern, restaurant in Orvieto.  Dinner was delicious and split into 5 courses.  In between courses, speeches were made from each of the professors and we expressed how thankful we were for each member of the staff as well. At the end no tears were shed.  Instead it was all of us scrambling to get pictures with every single person in the group so that we never forget our new family.
Today we packed up the rest of our bags and made our way down to the train station.  We waved goodbye to Orvieto for the last time and headed to Rome.  Making our way to our hostel became a little treacherous as the rain here has been really bad all day long.  We finally made it and then went out for dinner at this cute little restaurant across the street.  Jessica and I split pizza and carbonara.  We then made our way to the best gelato shop in Rome, to make our last gelato in Italia special.  We ate it underneath the columns of the Pantheon to keep out of the rain, and then took (or attempted to take) silhoutte pictures through the columns.

Our flight leaves in 12 hours.