Birthday Boar

Emily referred to her guide book to point us in the direction of a good restaurant. Cailey, Emily, Sharly, and I decided on this Trattoria just down the street from the Campo. It was almost 8 o’clock and not a single person was in the restaurant until these undetermined foreigners joined us. It also was a rainy day so there wasn’t a lot of people out anyways. This little dinner celebration was half for my birthday and half for our first Friday in Siena. Me and Emily shared a meat and pasta dish so that we could get both. We decided to be brave and try a typical Sienese dish which was stewed boar meat! So I had birthday boar this year haha. It proved to be a great choice and I would recommend it to anyone because it tastes just like pot roast. Cailey seems to think it looked like cat food so it isn't the most aestically pleasing food. The gnocchi was good but a little too cheesy for me. Dinner was fun!!

Birthday boar!!

Afterwards all the girls were meeting up in the Campo so we could hang out and get gelato. Well things took a turn for the worse and started to rain. I rather enjoyed the thunder and lightning. We headed for cover in this tunnel and had this drunk Italian men singing to us. It was quite entertaining. Since it was my birthday gelato I went all out getting the three flavors with the yummy chocolate and nuts cone. I somehow ended up with all white flavors coconut, fior di panna (vanilla), and stracciatella. Emily joined in on the splurge purchase and we both enjoyed our HUGE gelato cones. We even took a video of the proper way to eat the massive amounts of gelato. Afterwards we just stood around in the rain under our umbrellas chatting away as usual. The birthday festivities were fun and we had a memorable first Friday in Siena thanks to the rain.