torino!

this weekend we headed up north to torino, italy! you might recognize this city from the 2006 winter olympics. it used to be italy's capital many years ago before rome took that position over. it is known for it's little cafes (the best!), chocolate, and home of the fiat factory (cars). torino is in the piemonte region of italy, which is the number one italian region for wine, and their most famous wines are barolo and barbaresco. so it's kind of a big deal i guess.

my new dining room chairs

crocodile toilets!!

this city has a couple of fun things to do. it is home to the largest egyptian museum outside of egypt, a large cinema museum, and a giant/beautiful royal palace (we visited all of these, duh). but i really liked torino because the people were SO nice. this isn't a typical tourist destination, so it's not overwhelming. a lot of the people going through the museums were italians, so that was neat.

woo woo!!

the best was that torino was really cultural. so we ate that up. friday night we went to mexican and it was like we were little kids at disney. seriously. we were so excited to hear latin music and see burritos that our server was laughing at us. after we devoured our meals, our server came and asked, "tequila bomb?" in his thick italian accent. of course heather agreed, duh, so next thing we know he's screaming ONE, TWO, THREE, and banging shot glasses down on the table. heather took hers first, so the rest of us, who are scared of shots, asked if it tastes like tequila and she replied with a definite no. courtney was next, but we knew immediately that heather was lying. but we had to take them because our server was giving them to us for free! i held my nose, surprise. saturday night we had sushi... mmmm.

mmmm tequila bombs

margaritas and sangria!!!

saturday during the day we saw all of the good stuff. started out in the egyptian museum, made our way to the top of turin, and finished at the royal palace. it was pretty action-packed.

heather, courtney, and i in front of the egyptian museum

the oldest piece of fabric in the world

a bowl

giant carved people

tiny carved people

sarcophagus

awesome statues

there were about 10 layers to these things

mummmmies

you can see the one in the middles face!

real.dead.bodies.

i thought these were cool... very blue

shoes!

model of what the inside of the tombs looked like

ew hair

this is real.

head of the sarcophagus

i guess their clothing?

nasty wig

their beds look really comfortable....

sarcophagus

chocolate

awesome egyptian chair

shoes

shoes

gymnastics

statuuues

little organ cases. ewww. i like the monkey one though

mummy alligator!

cats!

some beautiful details

the alps are my favorite mountains in the world

aaahhhhhhh

we definitely left our mark on one of the cafes there. we went every night, and the morning we were leaving. the men recognized us and were especially fond of courtney. they gave us a million free truffles and told courtney that he wanted to take her home in a paper bag.

courtney and her boyfriend

he's married... nbd

tomorrow we visit the vatican!!