Musings...

And this is how Marriott welcomes me on my birthday, heee...

I'm baccckkk!!! And it has been a really FANTASTIC weekend with the gals, so much so that now I'm back in my apartment and Yi's on the way to Copenhagen, I am missing the company of the gals, the laugh-a-minute days...ah...

It was really a very very good break, recharging and getting the mind off work. Of course, it helps to eat all throughout our trip, starting with the restaurant 1 junction away from our hotel. Oh....the starters of mussels and clams in clear broth (reminds me of mussels in Brussels, hee), the grilled artichokes with "smooched" (typo on the menu, haha) salmon, vegetables in filo pastry and paper-thin pear and cheese slices with walnuts and honey which were absolutely divine and outshined the main courses.

On Saturday night, we got all dressed up and were lucky that even though we couldn't go to a recommended restaurant, we scored at another restaurant with a fast-moving queue after nearly getting pissed off with the hosts at the door of another nearby. We had a big antipasti of meat and another of seafood and 1 souffle of mash potato with cheese and bacon - YUMMY!!! The laughs free flowed throughout the night from starters to mains to dessert. What a great way to cap our first day in Rome!!! :D

Sunday started off with Caro knocking on our door 15mins before my alarm went off and she was fully dressed already! I thought I had gotten the alarm all wrong again, haha...but it was only because the clock moved 1 hour behind in winter time. When we finally got some breakfast into our systems, we did lots of walking in the Vatican city after 1 and 1/2hours in the queue for the museum and ended the day doing what we have wanted to do since we got to Rome - to eat at an Italian mama restaurant. I was quite surprised that it wasn't mains of pasta that come drenched with homemade tomato sauce, instead the food was light and quite yummy in a simple way, especially good for when the company is good and the conversation flowing. But I think it was too many of us coming from different ends to have a truly engaging and fun conversation. Still, I enjoyed the meal, especially the penne with the cheese sauce which was yummiliciously cheesy, and would have ate lots lots more if I didn't think there were 5 courses, haha... After dinner drinks was another bunch of laughs and thank goodness the gals were there ;)

It has been a blast of a trip, especially for my birthday! Thanks, gals, for EVERYTHING! Muah! :*