March Madness

 I think it’s safe to say I’m sucking at this whole blogging endeavor. Regardless, here’s a recap of March Madness!!

First of all I have to say that I couldn’t have ended February any better… All You Can Eat Sushi and a girls night pigging out and watching the movie Leap Year ON Leap Day !!! Just awesome.

Ok, so Anna managed to find this great pool hall just downtown, which is a lot of fun since it’s a nice break from going to the bars to drink… ok I lied, it’s just more fun since we can play pool WHILE drinking (cheaply) instead of sitting around drinking lol. It’s also a nice change from our poker/game nights.

Anna and I have been touring the city a lot this month because we’re planning a city-wide scavenger hunt for our friends! We thought it would be a interesting way to learn about Verona and spend a nice hot day. It probably won’t happen until after the Easter holidays so I’ll keep you posted or rather you’ll hear about it like a month later as per usual ha.

The first Sunday of March we had a “Sunday Family Roast.” It was probably one of the best days here so far. Anna was gracious enough to host the dinner at her lovely apartment. We were like kids on Christmas morning, so pumped for a full roast dinner with everyone! I went over to Anna’s in the morning and helped her prepare the food and dessert. Marion’s sister was over visiting and the two of them made her famous lemon and buttercream cupcakes (yes they were as amazing as they sound!!!). Be jealous.

Dinner Menu:

Appetizer: a balsamic glaze salad with stuffed mushrooms in the middle (unreal)

Main Course: Mash potatoes, roast potatoes, green beans, carrots, roast chicken, stuffing, and some weird package gravy the English insisted on.

Dessert: Irish Bailey’s Cream Cheesecake with chocolate shavings on top, Lemon cupcakes with lemon and buttercream icing, Irish Coffees.

I’d like to point out that I didn’t poison anyone with my stuffing that I made! I’m rather quite proud of myself actually because despite not having actually stuffed it in the chicken’s butt or having the proper poultry seasoning that mama Pam uses, it turned out pretty darn good! There’s hope for me yet. It was a double dose of dessert that day since while eating the amazing sweets we got to watch the hot Irish rugby team play on tv J After completely destroying my reputability as a lady by literally shoving fist-sized portions of mash potatoes down my throat, we played Bowl of Nouns (Dan you’d be proud) and Post-It Who Am I? The last one is awesome and easy since you just have to write down a famous person/character on a post-it and stick it on someone’s head. You get one question per round to try and figure out who you are! Highly recommended for hours of good old fashion fun.

If I’ve learned nothing else while in Verona, I can proudly walk away with the knowledge that I’m a pro stalker. In all fairness it was a beautiful Friday afternoon spent in a park (that just happened to be on the set of the new Romeo and Juliet movie). I mean lets be honest, they picked a pretty hot cast of boys lol. Ed Westwick aka Chuck Bass as Tybalt, Douglas Booth as Romeo (he’s so good looking and a sweetheart to boot), and Christian Cooke as Mercutio! Although I didn’t get a picture with any of them, I did get to talk to Romeo and let me put it on record that he is the perfect Romeo! I can also proudly admit that I never once screamed or ran after them, which may not amount to much considering my friends and I did hang around the set for a good 6 hours….

Douglas Booth = Romeo

Ed Westwick= Tybalt

Christian Cooke= Mercutio

The weekend after was St. Patrick’s Day, so it was a huge deal since Anna and Marion are Irish! I guess there’s not much to say about it other than we went into town, had a few drinks, got gelato, ate pizza, and spent the night with a bunch of weird old guys are our favourite pub Campus! We wore funny hats and drank Guinness all night….yes it tastes like what I imagine wood would taste like ha! The next day was spent relaxing at Anna’s for a girls’ movie day. It’s not our fault that the guys don’t want to join us for our Rom Coms. 

St. Patrick's Night in Campus... after I spilled my Guinness on Anna's lap!

Last weekend was our trip to Cinque Terre !!!! But I’ll save that for the next blog….