You're going to go. Hi everyone welcome back to about on paper podcast I'm Becca Freeman and I'm

Olivia mentor and today is our April book club and we're discussing

expiration dates by Rebecca Searle. We are indeed but first let's get into some highs and lows.

What is your high?

Okay, so my high is that I just got back from my trip to Rome.

And, I mean, last week's high was that I was anticipating it, but this week's high is that I experienced it.

I was there for six days. It was fantastic. We had unseasonably warm weather, so it was like in the high 70s or low 80s the whole time.

So it was also like getting a, not a tropical getaway, but it was getting away from the kind of

cold dreary weather we've been having in the northeast.

And it was fantastic.

Rome is somewhere that I haven't been since I was in college, so it did feel like completely new to explore.

It was like a very eating centric vacation which was wonderful

and it was like the perfect mix of relaxing enough

and doing things like we did a lot of things but I also took a nap most afternoons because dinner is so late so I took like a five o'clock nap most days.

I feel great it was so fun.

It looked amazing the amount of just like beautiful photos of pasta that you shared.

Oh my God, we ate so much pasta and old buildings. The combination it really spoke to me and the

colors it was just gorgeous. It looked just heavenly. I know that you went to

Sicily and to Tuscany in the past couple of years have you spent a lot of time in a room?

I've been to Rome maybe two or three times. I don't think I've ever

spent more than like four days there maybe. That's decent. Yeah I haven't been

since maybe 2018 or something but I've never been to a place in Italy that

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