Friday I went with Maria and Marina to Orvieto for the day. Maria suggested it Thursday night and we all just thought "Why not?!" It was a really easy train ride, just over an hour and only 7 euro. Orvieto is a beautiful town on top of a big hill in Umbria. Considering how small and out of the way it is, it was very touristy. The train drops you off at the bottom of the hill/mountain and there is a weird tram thing that takes you up to the town. From there we just walked around. It was a beautiful day and there were a lot of Italian High School tour groups. Our main goal of the day was to get a really good lunch. We walked away from the center but hit the edge (literally a cliff edge) of town pretty fast. We knew we didn't want a tourist place to eat so we asked a couple locals walking by. One didn't seem to know of any good restaurants in the town but the second guy sent us to Mezzaluna Trattoria. We got lost trying to find it and had to ask directions from a guy who seemed really excited that we were going there. When we asked if it was good he grinned really big and said "Siiiii, troppo buono!" (Yes, too good!). Perhaps his cousin was the owner. We finally found it and got the only empty table. We each ordered a pasta. I got Amatriciana, Marina got tortellini with cream sauce, and Maria got a mushroom something. All of them were some of the best dishes I had ever had in Italy. None of us talked during it because we were too busy eating and "Mmmmm"-ing. We then got a mixed grilled meat plate which was equally delicious and then the owner brought us dessert on the house. The lunch ened up taking more than 2 hours (we were only in Orvieto for 4 and a half hours!). After lunch we all wanted to pass out into food comas and lay outside for awhile by the view. Then we walked to the duomo and looked inside and then lay outside in the grass some more. It was a lazy day but a really good trip. We definitely want to do another day trip soon. 
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