ROMEing Around: snow? it doesn't snow in Rome

I forgot to add in my last post, that the weekend after Valentines Day (Feb 19th) Rome had a blizzard! I woke up one morning for class and looked out the window to HUGE snow flakes. Thinking class might be cancelled (i had been told that people in Italy freak out when it snows)I jumped on the internet, but sure enough, class was still being held. The flakes were starting to be mixed with rain so I thought that the freak snow would be over shortly and it would just rain for the rest of the day. I was wrong! As the morning went on, the snow got thicker until it was a full out blizzard. Rome hasn't got snow since 1996 and had accumulated that much snow since the 80's! It was crazy! Everyone was out checking it out, some of the kids we also having snow ball fights. You could tell that this doesn't happen very often (and that baseball isn't that popular here) because they could not hit their target when he/she was 8 feet in front of them!

Also, the snow only lasted until about noon, then the sun came out and was actually a pretty pleasant day. If you were not up before noon, you would have no clue of what had happened in the morning. On saturday (the day we went to Tivoli), it was the best day we have had here up to that day. Crazy this Italian weather! Here are some pictures I got of this madness!