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Going on Base

I had another Italian market experience today, I needed to make brownies for tonight so I headed downstairs to Conad. These are all the ingredients that I got today, such a different experience. Sugar is Zucchero, and vanilla comes in little powder packets instead of a jar of liquid.


Tonight was my first time on base. We had to go on because we were going to dinner at Kyle's friends house, Sean. He lives in base housing with his wife Ann and two kids Tess and Joe. They are super cute and were so excited to have company to play with! We had a lot of fun, they are really nice people and everyone knows that I love kids so that was nice, made me miss some kids from back home though. Tess got ahold of my camera and took about a hundred photos of everything haha here are a few:
Kyle

Sean and Ann

Tess

Joe
We went to Madigans when we got back and Jesse and his girlfriend Emily came to meet up with us. Jesse works with Kyle too and they live right up the street. Madigans is the local sailor bar/irish pub. The guy who owns it, Luca, was super friendly and spoke English pretty well. The second we got in there he told Kyle good job on the win today. Apparently there is an Italian football player, Marek Hamsik, who looks a lot like Kyle, or Kyle looks like him I should say. So people say things like that to him a lot because he has a famous twin over here. He pulled out a guitar later and Kyle played a little bit.


♥ Mae
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