What's Been Going Down

First of all, sorry for the sporadic updates. But in all honestly, we haven't been doing a whole lot lately. Charles seems to have something of a set schedule at The Abbey which means he's working four nights a week. The Abbey is a fun place to work and it's a pretty easy job for the most part, though the money isn't great or even good for that matter! Complaints aside, it's more money than he was making sitting around the house and doing nothing! Another good thing about working at the Pub is that it will be work during August, in which there will be probably zero teaching hours since all Romans seem to take the month off and leave the city in search of crowded beaches and cancerous tumors.

Allie is waiting to hear from a school she interviewed with last Friday. The interview went well, ie, no mention of the dreaded work visa. The only problem was whether or not the hours would conflict with the job she just picked up for the summer. Why do things seem to be so complicated?

So, what have we been doing for fun lately? Well, we had a really nice out last Friday as a little celebration for selling our car (thanks ma and dad). First we got ourselves some fried fish (to go, it's cheaper!) from a famous little joint near Campo di Fiori. With fish in hand, we walked through Campo to Piazza Navona and stopped into The Abbey for a pint of beer (I get a small discount!) After that we headed to a tiramisu place near our apartment that was highly recommended to us by one of Allie's students. At about 11:45 p.m. we arrived to a packed house. There were literally 50-75 people outside sitting at tables and the same amount inside. Everyone was munching on tiramisu or gelato. We were shocked because this place isn't mentioned in any guidebooks (yet) and we were probably the only English speakers in the place. The tiramisu was fantastic (second best in Italy so far) and it was really cool to find such a great spot so close to home. In fact, it was so good we went back the following day for their strawberry tiramisu!

Pompi Bar - Il Regno del Tiramisu
http://www.barpompi.com/home.html (copy and paste, then drool)