Imparare l'italiano (Learning Italian)

It rained tonight which was a change since its been so hot lately. There was thunder and lightning too, but mainly "fulmine" (lightning). We watched it from the balcony before we went out to dinner. Kyle really wanted to take me to this place right downstairs that has amazing pizza called Fresco's which means "Fresh" in Italiano. Their name doesn't lie. Since I still don't really know the language Kyle ordered for us. Their pizzas were huge! I only finished a fourth of mine, it had tomatoes, basil and mozzarella di bufala (buffalo mozzarella) that was very Fresco!

We took a walk down to the harbor after dinner. It wasn't raining then but there was still fulmine over the island Ischia, which is like a Catalina to us. It was really very pretty to watch and there wasn't any rain, just light over the island. The harbor is really close and on the walk down we saw a spot of Locks of Love that Christine and Dan were telling us about. We will have to go get a padlock and add one here. Down at the harbor theres a really long and wide boardwalk thats made out of granite and mosaics. Its huge and Kyle said he thinks it stretches all the way down to Naples.

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Building a table

So these are some of the things I do all day while I'm home alone when Kyle has to work. I usually go down to the corner cafe then go over to the markets and get what I need for dinner that night or any other random things we seem to need. If its not raining I'll go walk around the neighborhood and get lost and find my way back. This all needs to be done before 1 or 2 because thats nap time over here for everyone. All the shops close up for a few hours and go have huge lunches then sleep till its time to open up again for the evening. So today I built a table during those hours! Kyle bought this table from the NEX (the Navy Exchange on base) because the table he had barely fit the two of us, let alone a crowd if he ever had one. Plus his kitchen is big enough and he had gift cards so might as well! They delivered it around 9am and just put it in the kitchen then left. So it was up to us to build it. Well that was a bigger task than I expected when I started opening up the box....

Last night

This is the last night I'll spend in my bed! Tomorrow night I'll be sleeping on a plane for 11+ hours and then the night after that will be the start of my nights of sleep in Italy! It has been quite the intense week with preparing as well as seeing people before I leave. I just saw the whole LCAD gang again one last time tonight which was was awesome! Soooo good seeing Dana too =) I think I'm all packed and ready! Well I know I'm ready that's for sure but as for packed, well we shall see once I get there what I forgot! I did have to pack a carry on which I was trying to avoid. It seems like I will be carrying all this onto the plane with me! Yay!! That's what I get for packing my suitcase over 50lbs oh well. ♥ Mae

Our Christmas

I still had a secret Kyle didn't know about, the hotel Christmas, and he was about to find out. When we were waiting in line for a cab, I pulled out the room key that was in an envelope and gave it to him. He was very confused but I said just be patient. After dealing with out stupid cabbie we made it to the hotel. I didn't need to check in since I already had. I was do excited in the elevator I still couldn't contain myself I wanted to show him his surprise so badly! Once we got to the room he saw the sign on the door and I explained that since he couldn't be here for Christmas, I made it for us! He loved everything! I showed him around the whole place and everything that I had done. Our cute little christmas tree! Loaded baked potato soup with strawberry mango sangria and cute straws to match! The first thing he wanted to do was to have me open my present but I told him to wait. He wanted to take it out of his suitcase at the airport an have me open it he w...

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