Exploration

I forgot to mention that yesterday on Wednesday the 25th of January.  I went with the missionaries to the pantheon and then the city on the cliff.  It was very beautiful.  I will try to post some pictures later.  We hiked up lots of stairs.  Which side note by the way Italians are famous for three things.  1. Scary fast driving on narrow one way streets.  2. Beautiful cities.  3. stairs, stairs, and more stairs.  To say that we hiked was a lie.  How can you hike in a city/mountain that has been there for hundreds of years?  Take the well paved path of stairs to the top.  Not so well paved because it's cobble stones fashioned together for a bumpy walk up.  But altogether beautiful scenery once you've stepped the ten stories worth of stairs.  Century old decrepit buildings half there was our scenery on the way up.  Then low and behold the pantheon looming in it's glory of a less old building.  We walked inside it all the way around snapping pictures.  Then we found stairs cut off by a red rope teasing us with a view of the columns on top.  We stepped over the rope and up more stairs till we were on the top of the monument looking off.  Breathtakingly beautiful.  I forgot to mention that this whole time Elder Gummel was filling me in on his potential love waiting for him back in Washington.  To say that I'm not a romantic is false.  I'm a true romantic which made the story wonderful, but disappointing because I kind of liked Elder Gummel in the maybe wait after your mission see where the Lord puts us sort of way.  I told him my tragic story of almost alter, then it was Elder Rockwoods turn to tell his tale.  While he started in on his story we walked more until we found the museum.   Pausing his story we explored the war museum then left back down the mountain.  Rockwood told a tale that seemed extremely fanciful, but who am I to judge right?  Turns out it was a false story with only the beginning of it true.  We unanimously decided to take the funvale (cable thing that is suspended on a wire that only holds like five people.) and go up to the city on the cliff.  Once at the top we talked, and laughed but mainly took photos of the view.  All of Trento was spread out before us.  We headed back down on the funvale with still an hour remaining until Elder Rockwood was being transferred so we went into a pizzeria had some cheap pizzas Italian style.  Walked around a little more and sat down on a bench so I could sign Elder Rockwoods book.  I signed it also putting in two attributes his future wife should have.  (Curves, and love of explorations).  My favorite quote came from Elder Gummel as we were sitting writing notes to each other he said, "Do you realize that we are sitting on a bench looking at a corner when behind us is a big beautiful Italian Church building (cathedral)..." I guess you would have to be there, but it was hilarious.  All three of us crowded on this bench facing away from the normal view with our backs to everyone staring at a corner.  Behind us was Trento's famous Duomo Cathedral.