The weekend after my last post was the weekend of the Ballestra. All that week there were people, in medieval garb, who would parade down the streets playing instruments. That weekend there were only four girls left in the palazzo. The girls left were Vi, Amanda, Chelsea and myself. That Saturday we went on a group trip to Citta di Castello with John Rose and Doctor Webb. The trip was a lot of fun and it was a great chance to relax. After lunch we walked around Citta di Castello with Bekah. We spent most of our time in a small park that we had discovered. That is where we discovered this dashing man with the epic mustache.We ended up taking more picture of the group, ourselves and each other than the sights around us.
We left Citta di Castello and went home to Sansepolcro.
That night we went to see "The Proposal" at a movie theatre, which was amazing. We were lucky enough to get a box seat right in the center. Of course, the movie was in Italian, but the message still got through, and it still managed to make me cry.
It was a great end to a great day.
The next day was the Ballestra. It didn't start until 5:00 pm, so the day was spent in peaceful silence until the time came to leave for the piazza. The Ballestra is basically a competition between the two towns of Gubbio and Sansepolcro. The competition is a crossbow competition and it was mind-blowing. The arrows went so fast and it seemed that at least thirty of them had hit the target. For the entire competition they hadn't changed the target, so by the end it was a huge cluster of arrows. There were also performances by other bands and flag wavers.
This was the Gubbio crossbow team.
This was the Sansepolcro crossbow team.
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