Orvieto!!

For those of you who don't know Orvieto is a beautiful and small Italian town that sits on top of a volcanic plateau near the city of Viterbo, Italy. You might be thinking, well what's so great about a tiny Italian town? I'll tell you what's great, THE GELATO! It was by far the best confectionery delight to ever grace my palette. Fragola (Strawberry), Pesche (Peach), Banana (Banana) were by far the best flavors. Also, they have a great duomo just like Firenze and when we went in to visit we got to watch an Italian wedding! The wedding was odd because unlike in America everyone darts for the door when the priest pronounces them man and wife. Couldn't they have the common courtesy to let them walk out first. I mean I know the reception is awesome and all, but really!?!? Everyone doesn't need to advertise it to the world that the ceremony was boring. Anyway I digress.

The other cool thing about the town was the catacombs and its adorable inhabitants. (And when I say adorable inhabitants I really mean stray cats that roamed the park and let Alex play with them.) The catacombs were built by the Etruscans to help them ward off attackers back in the day. There are over 1000 caves that were dug and I saw two of them (WOO WOO). Unfortunately, Etruscans were kind of like the people who dug under buildings in Shanghai last year. I think they forgot that when you dig out all the ground below multi-ton buildings they typically collapse. Well because of this pesky "collapse and kill everyone walking below" problem, digging is no longer allowed at this time. Good call Orvieto.

Ok ok, enough reading for now. On to the pictures: