"Fertilizer for my Future"

I feel really cool because I bought a leather cuff today. Granted, it is light brown with a gold bow charm on it. But it is a leather cuff. Nothing says "cool" like leather bracelets except maybe ray bans. Mine got all scratched up though so I bought some bright blue rimmed sunglasses for 5 euro. Today was basically 7 hours of walking and shopping. 

We went to Porta Portese for the giant flea market. It stretched for what seemed like miles and miles. You can buy just about everything at this market. There are stands for clothes, shoes, motorcycle helmets, food, jewelry, sunglasses, bags, wedding dresses (I think they only cost about 20 euro), sheets (there was a big bin of loose bed sheets for 2 euro. Seemed a little sketch), art, silverware, books, movies, bikes, everything. It was total sensory overload though. The vendors are all really aggressive and it's a little overwhelming to try to buy something. I ended up buying some bracelets (and the leather cuff, haha), sunglasses, a heart-shaped ring (only 1 euro), and some cute scarves. I ended up leaving the scarves in a store after trying on some boots. I was too tired to go back and get them but Kim insisted that we go. I was happy that they were in fact still there because they were cute even if they were pretty cheap. We rewarded ourselves with some gelato. I ordered Baci and fragola. I am not ordering Baci again because it led to 5 minutes of the guy serving joking to me about wanting a kiss from him. Baci are chocolates but translated mean kisses. Not worth it, I will just order Nutella flavored if I want the hazelnut chocolate combo.

Apparently it's also Chinese new year. I didn't know this until we walked to Piazza del Popolo and there was a huge stage and crowd and dancers. We also so a bunch of kids dressed up in costumes throwing confetti around. Not sure if these were connected. We've been seeing a lot of confetti on the sidewalks all around the city.

Also today we walked by a cat habitat of sorts. Rome is rather famous for its cats. There are tons of them.  I often see one or two sleeping on the roof of the apartment next door. The place today was cool because the cats just got to live on top of Roman ruins. If I were a cat, I think that would be amazing. There were a ton of cats living there. You could definitely smell it too. The square gave Stinky Park a run for it's money...or name, I guess. This one cat might have been a cat model. He was smeyesing as they say. Haha, just kidding. I hope I don't become a crazy cat lady. It is quite likely I will though.