Already heading to our second to last place?! I can't believe it! Well it was a pretty uneventful morning. We packed up, checked out, picked up some breakfast along the way and made it to the train station. We hopped on our train and we were in Siena before we knew it. We picked up a bus ticket to city central (which was really pretty).
However, my book didn't have a map of Siena and the directions the hotel gave to Paige were pretty unclear without a map to center ourselves. We knew we had to get off at the city center stop, but then we were clueless. We asked a really nice woman who turned out to know French, some Italian and close to no English. However, she said "I show you" and proceeded to walk us to our hotel! She didn't even know exactly where it was, but asked multiple people on behalf of us and delivered us to our front door! We felt so grateful and wanted to buy her gelato or something as a thank you but she just said you're welcome and head on he way. Our hotel was only part of a much larger building that was siting right next to the church of San Domenico. It was interesting because I think some people lived there and some just rented. Regardless our room was perfect for us!
It had a little kitchen in a closet, a bathroom (with the showers that are just in the middle and not raised up), a big canopy bed, a loft with a pull out couch and a big window with the most beautiful view of Siena!
Yah that's the view from our window! Magdalena and I decided to be loft buddies.
The best part about being in the loft was the ceiling.
After we got settled in we decided to use a 10% discount we were given for a ristorante about two doors down. We knew it was going to be good because we had ice in our water!
And surprising enough olive oil and balsamic vinegar for our bread!
I got a panini with ham, cheese and artichoke with a side salad.
It was really good! The waiter all informed us that there was going to be a city wide celebration for the summer solstice that evening (I think it was called white night or blanco notte). We went back to the room and I was feeling really tired. I hadn't slept great in Florence (it was hot and the beds were not the best). I have been to Siena before so I told the girls I would just rest and they can go explore. I finally gave in and watched one of my movies I rented from ITunes in Barcelona. Bridesmaids was nice way to relax and laugh a little that afternoon. I know I travel with the best people when they come back with fresh groceries to make dinner!! They got tons of fresh vegetables and pasta with tomatoe sauce and pesto AND COOKIES. 
I have been craving cookies, not pastries or fancy sweets, just a run of the mill cookie! As we started making dinner I realized that people were starting to set up for the nights celebrations outside our window.
Balloons and light up toys. I also had some lovely ladies preparing the salads.
I miss cooking so much so helping make these meals is like a little slice of heaven for me. And the fresh veggies aren't bad either.
That's right raw mushrooms in the salad and I had cooked ones in my pesto pasta. I think I'm official mushroom eater.
This was by far my favorite. The tomato sauce was good too, but I went as far as to scrap some of the sauce off my tomato noodles to have more pesto.
They also grabbed a diet coke and who wouldn't with a label like this...
We also split some wine and decided to go explore this festival, which we could already hear the music from. The streets we absolutely packed! There was 10+ little stages set up around the city with lots of different types of music like DJs with pop, rock, orchestra and a Native American duo.
I also saw some of the light up stuff that was being set up behind our place.
For those of you familiar with vine, I was making an awesome vine, but somehow it got deleted! Was really upset because it was awesome. Anyways we all fell in love with the cutest little boy who didn't want to leave with his parents and instead just wanted to dance with his balloon. I didn't take a picture of him, even though I wanted to, but here is what he was jamming to...
Not a bad setting for a band I'd say. We even wandered into Il Campo.
And decided it was time to head home. We got a little turned around, but luckily it's a small city and we got back on track. When we got back I was starting to feel under the weather (AGAIN). I was just happy to get in bed!
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