Sunday September 28

Today breakfast in the dining room with a rather odd assortment of stuff...filling but not sumptuous.  We walked to the train station about 3 blocks away, and I used my walking sticks for the first time.  Two of our group needed SIM cards and that was the place to get them.  So, it took them 2 hours to get them, so one of the fellows and Marilyn and I walked to Ruplica Piazza and then Santa Maria maggiore...then lunch where I ordered a calzone.  It came and was enormous.  Tasty but huge!  Then back to our hotel for a nap.  Dinner with our expanded group...about 20 Americans for a four course meal. Assorted meats, and bread with tomatoes on top and olives, followed by lasagna and then veal and oven browned potatoes.  A scarcity of vegetables...then the dessert which was two kids of gelati..one strawberry and the other pistachio...quite delightful.  Coffee too, if one wished, but I didn't.  We meet tomorrow at 8 am for the bus trip,for the day.  I signed up for Rome at night which is a dinner followed by a show of mildly operatic nature. The opera La Traviata is on near by but unfortunately cannot do both.  More adventures tomorrow.  Hope to get a picture of me and the calzone.