Roma by night and gelato heaven!

Trying to decide what to do Thursday night we realized we hadn't had gelato in weeks, so we made the trip to gelato heaven (our nickname for it, the actual name of the gelateria i don't remember) which is by the Pantheon. We call it gelato heaven cause it has 60 different flavors of gelato. We also spent some time by the Trevi Fountain, probably one of my favorite places in Rome (maybe it's cause it brings back good memories of the first days in Roma)!

Making a wish. Let's see if it comes true :)

Julia, Me, Rebecca

Gelato Heaven: only a fourth of the line of gelato.

Orange chocolate, strawberry chocolate, raspberry chocolate, chocolate chocolate... Shall I go on?

How do we keep missing the lake? And the castle. And the amphitheater?!

Walking around Villa Borghese. Somehow we kept missing the lake, the castle and the amphitheater-we walked around it, but we never managed to actually get to these places. The signs pointing to them and the actual roads to get to them don't coincide...
But it was a beautiful day outside and Julia and I had a nice, relaxing time walking around the park!

View of Piazza del Popolo from the top

Map of Villa Borghese

Don't sit on Chopin for he will yell!

This weekend was awesome! We got to Poland at around 6, came home, at dinner and then took the bus to Nowy Swiat where we walked around a bit. Then Saturday we walked around some more, with Michal giving us a tour of Warsaw.
The next day we did a bit of shopping and went ice-skating. The ice-skating ring, though inside, was melting a bit so we were practically ice-skating through a river in some parts.
Me + Julia + Michal + good music + good food + dancing + ice-skating + sightseeing = a pretty awesome weekend :D

Warsaw by night!

The singing bench: when you hear music and see people standing around and not sitting on a bench, go see what's going on. Cause occasionally you may come upon a bench that plays music and tells you random facts about Chopin :) But make sure not to sit on Chopin, it may make him angry :P

Łazienki

Ducks on a circle of ice 

Delicious lunch/dinner after a successful day of shopping :)

Ice-skating

Stare Miasto/Nowy Swiat

Pałac w Wilanowie

Poland through the lens of my camera!

The clouds looked like whipped cream :)

The sunset from the plane

What's better than getting a bouquet of flowers at the airport? Getting a bouquet of candy :)

Krakow!

Drive to Zakopane

The view from the living room window

So much snow... Can't say I missed it, I think I prefer the warm weather in Rome :)

This is how much snow there was on the WINDOW LEDGE!

Horse carriage. White snow, white horse, it was a winter wonderland there :) <3 

The view from the trolley we took down to Zakopane!

Gubalowka: 1123 meters

Um, I was absolutely in love with these puppies and if it wasn't for the fact that I need to be on a plane to go back to Rome and then Chicago, I would so have bought one of them. So incredibly adorable, I wanted to by all of them... 

Walking around Zakopane

The view from their living room window on a clear morning... You can see the mountains, and this isn't even zoomed in!

We ate dinner at the restaurant in this hotel on the way back :)

Flying over the Swiss Alps on the way back from Poland!