Parks and Paddle Boats and Beaches

 I love all of my classes, even the Italian.  But the Photography class has to be my favorite.  Not only am I doing something I really enjoy but we get to do it in some really cool places.  Just last week we visited the largest park I've ever seen-bigger than Central Park and Stanley Park I'm sure or at least felt like it after wandering around it for three hours.  Then we traveled south a bit to visit a 'modern' section of Rome, the EUR.  By 'modern' I mean that most of the architecture comes either from the fascist 1930's or the post-war late 1950's (preparing for the 1960 olympic games).  That is where we took a paddle boat ride.  And yesterday, to make up for a couple classes we missed because our instructor, Susan, had to be out of town, we went to Santa Severa, a quaint beach town just north of Rome.  It was a beautiful day with beautiful weather, a beautiful castle and a beautiful sea.  Here we took tandem bikes around town and had gelato.  Come to think of it, gelato is a part of almost every session of photography.  Maybe that's why I love the class!