Pizza Heart!

Heart pizza!



And it was pretty good. In Italy, mixed fruit salad is called macedonia...

St. Gerri

Here's a cute one of Gerri and her "Saint"!



I think riding the subway was actually a lot of fun for the ladies. It's a good way to people watch, and we weren't ever going very far. Also, we were on Line 3, the yellow line, most of the time. It's the nicest and newest and has air conditioning!

The Ladies Visit

Linda, Chris, and Gerri are in Italy right now, at a big FINA meet in Riccione. I got to show them around the town a bit this past weekend. Here they are in front of the Duomo on Friday. When we stopped by the Duomo again Saturday morning, there was a big ceremony going on for ordaining priests! It was quite lovely.

Foods at La Rinascente

This weekend I attended aperitivo at La Rinascente with the swimming ladies. I have a big bunch of pictures to show off from their visit, but I figure I will start with this quick food pic.



Pasta rings! And deep fried cocktail capers, like from yesterday's post!

Esselunga Trip

I hit up Esselunga today. (Sunday hours, 9-14!) It's definitely nicer than Penny Market, with a bigger selection. And higher prices too. Here's my big haul.



The most exciting things I got were these cocktail capers, and some new flavors of filled pasta! Ravioli di zucca, turban squash ravioli, and these artichoke and pistachio tortellini.



I tried the ravioli di zucca, pretty good, and quite different than the butternut squash ravioli I am used too.

Rediscovery

Well, I had an odd moment last night. I realized I had a completely empty cabinet in my kitchen, and I just "rediscovered" it.



See, right there, just to the left of the sink. That's a tin full of tea, also. To be fair, that cabinet to the right of it is pretty much empty too, but it's a drying rack cabinet and you all know how I loathe washing dishes by hand, I am dishwasher all the way. Anyway, I feel like I opened the cabinet when I first got here, and never needed it since. But, it's really a better place for my dried goods than above the fridge, so I have moved all that stuff over there. It goes to show how this place really is bigger than I need it to be!

Pirate Ship

In Italy, lots of these rides don't have the same safety equipment as they would in the US. The bumper cars had no seat belts and no fence surrounding the floor, the Condor did have little doors but no seat belts, and so on. The pirate ship kind of amazed me. It didn't go upside down or anything, but it did have these compartments on the upper decks where you could go into the cage and stand during the ride, gripping the bars for support. It looked fun, and definitely like the kind of thing that they would never have in the US since you could easily bonk yourself!