The Giant Gelato Cone
Slurping my way through a gelato monster I was digging through my pictures the other day. This blog dredges up stories from the old days, and I always try to find a fitting picture to accompany the story on the blog. More than once, that search for a photo has inspired another blog post. Such is the case today. In the photo at the top, you will see a 20 year old Ben holding a very large gelato cone. It was a roasting hot June day in Florence, Italy. We had been walking for hours and I was starving. I was part of a thirteen student group from Montana State University’s Architecture Program that had been invited to Rome for the summer of 2011 to study in one of the greatest architectural cities in human history. For ten weeks, we took a deep dive into classical art and architecture. When not in classes in central Rome, we would travel to other notable locations from the Italian Renaissance to study the magnificent work done by the masters such as Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Bernini, Palla