EUROchocolate

Our main street lined with chocolate vendors

Let me just start by saying that the amount of chocolate I consumed this weekend was actually obscene. Oh good God. But it was so good. So so good. Perugia is the chocolate capital of Italy and this weekend the Eurochocolate Festival kicked off on Friday morning. There was literally chocolate everything everywhere. Chocolate bark, truffles, milk, fudge, chocolate kebabs, life size chocolate bears, chocolate cream cheese, chocolate liquor.... it was unreal. If you paid 6 euro you got a Chococard which provided you with samples from 15 places. Of course I did this. How could you turn that down? 

gale force winds. nbd.

chestnuts roasting on an open fire!!!!

So do you like all the pictures I took with my third new camera?! The amount of money I've spent on cameras still disgusts me. Vom.

Anyways. As you can see it was just a lovely eat fest all weekend. On Saturday we escaped the cast of thousands that were taking chocolate to the face and swarming the streets of Perugia and went over to Assisi. It was so beautiful and quiet there. We went in the churches and saw St. Francis's tomb. I said a prayer on it (I know, my holiness is overwhelming) And then we had the most amazing meal ever (anyone noticing a theme of eating here?) But seriously, it was this thin bread with gorgonzola, figs, and prosciutto. It was amazing.

I want one.

So Assisi was beautiful, as usual (ha I rhymed). On our way home we stopped at the big grocery store by the train station and then proceeded to get on the mini metro back up to the center of town. Oh my god I wanted to pull my hair out. Picture this: a tiny little subway car packed with a gazillion people with no sense of personal space slamming into you so that you can all fit so that they can go eat some chocolate. hey. GET OUT OF MY TOWN. No but seriously, I was dying. I had to go for a run when I got home so that I could be in open space and have the freedom to move again (i need therapy? nahhh)

I realized something though. I have always thought of myself as a city girl. I wanted to get out of North Carolina in high school because I thought it was boring, it was too safe, too comfortable, too same old same old. I wanted something totally different. I wanted what I thought was a city. But I don't think that's really the case. I think I just wanted a different culture. To experience something else. Because let me tell you something, masses of people crowding around me make me feel like I'm going crazy. So maybe I just wanted to be in a city because cities usually have lots of different cultures. I thought I wanted to grow up and live in New York City. I still want to do that for a little after I graduate (If I can find a job) but then my dream life would be living in some beautiful house on a beautiful piece of land where I can go for a run in the morning and be surrounded my something other than houses and cement sidewalks. No suburbs for me please. So anyways. Enough about my most current life realization.

I am doing a case study and writing my final term paper for my food class on the evolution of cooking and raw diets. SO starting today I am eating a raw diet until Friday (when I leave for fall break. First stop: LONDON yehaw) I think my body might actually go into shock this week when it realizes I am not going to feed it massive amounts of bread, pasta, and chocolate. I'll keep yall updated on how this little thing goes. Should be interesting.

Alright well. I am going to go do something with my life. Midterms this week. already halfway through B left at 5:15 this morning. Sad. Missing her already.

She's going to kill me for this. LOVE YOU.

Okay kiddies. Ciao ciao for now.