Dateline: July 23, 2012. Today
was our first full day in Italy. We started our day by recovering from jet lag.
With an eight hour time change from Rapid, the extra sleep was excellent,
especially since I hardly slept on the plane. Breakfast was very different from
an American breakfast. It consists of more pastry type items than such things
as eggs, cereal, or bacon. Personally, I think I enjoy an Italian breakfast
more. Their coffee is also much different. I have never really liked coffee,
but I enjoy their coffee. Their most common is actually a shot of espresso and that’s
it. I’ve heard the locals usually drink it over a few minutes or an hour, but I
like to just drink the whole thing very quickly. The afternoon we spent at Gran
Sasso Laboratory. We actually have an hour and a half bus ride from our lodging
to the lab. Italians drive like crazy around here. They have extremely narrow
roads that they fly around. Stop signs also appear to be suggestions. At the
lab, we had a lecture on the Borexino experiment that was looking for neutrinos
in a process similar to the lux experiment at Homestake in Lead, SD. The rest
of our time at the lab we spent in an extreme game of foosball. Once we got
back to our hotel, we had a very good three course Italian meal. The rest of
our night we spent hanging out in the hotel before heading to bed.
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