As the last two weeks are quickly aproaching I am finding it harder to write my blogs on a regular basis. For this I am sorry and will try to do better in the coming days. With that said a lot has happened since my last post...
On Saturday I was free at 2 in the afternoon after another great family meal. I met our cleaning lady, Micheala (finally figured out how to spell it) and Barbara. Micheala works so hard that she never has anytime for you herself so on Saturday I talked her into getting her hair cut. Last week she showed me a picture of a cut she liked but told me she never has time for things like that. She has three jobs during the week and works the morning shift an office on Saturday. But I convenced her, and the three of us went to a salon to get her hair cut and colored. She looked really good and her color turned out darker than expected so now we look a little like sisters. Barbara and I met Andrea at the cinema for a final movie of the film festival. We saw "The Dirty Dozen" (yes the orginal with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin). Andrea had already seen it but Barbara and I both enjoyed it. I liked the fact that we could watch such an old movie (circa 1967) on the big screen. It reminded me of my dad cause he likes those kind of movies too. After the movie we went for an appertivo-happy hour-at this place that also had a buffet to go with your drink. We sat and talked for a couple of hours and then finished the night off with good old gelato-I am aware that it is winter.
On Sunday morning I was a little lazy and tried to get things done in my room and ready for my big trip at the end of two weeks. The night before we had played the world capital game-which I'm horrible at-but was asked a few capitals of the states and didn't know. I was embarrased so on Sunday I spent some time studying my state capitals. After my study session I met the other two amigos and we went to the cinema museum. Barbara had never been but loved it. This is still my favorite museum I have seen while in Italy. We took the elevator to the top of the Mole-the tallest building in the city. Unfortunately it was cloudy but we still could see some of this beautiful city. We spent over three hours in the museum looking at the incredible displays of info about my favorite hobby. (watching not making). After the museum we went to the bowling ally and played three rounds. Not my best bowling score but I managed to win two out of three. We moved onto table soccer, which I have never been good at. Luckily Barbara was on my team so we scored some. After a night of games we went to a Chinese restaurant and then off to bed for the new week.
On Monday after school, I put Ruggie down for his nap and tried to find something to keep Fil busy with. While we were laying down, the washing machine broke and water flooded the kitchen. It was unfortunate that this happened, however it kept Fil occupied and he was really a big help for Micheala. After Ruggie woke up and the lake was contained to one room in the house, we atempted to put up the Christmas tree. I have a presonal tradition that whenever I decorate the tree I have to listen to Christmas music to get me in the mood. I put on a mix of some of my favorites and read the instructions on how to put together the tree. After several tries I surrendered and Micheala came to the rescue. Once it was up the boys decorated it . Well I should say Fil told Ruggie where to put every ornament and make sure everything was perfect before he would leave the room. I took him to basketball and then we had a nice famly dinner while the tree blinked in the background.
On Tuesday I had a good day at design work and trying to finish a deadline before Thursday...I will let you know how that goes. I picked Ruggie up and we took two buses to get to music class. I look back on the first month I was here and was terrified to take the bus by myself just in case I ended up in Rome or completely lost and now I take kids on the bus during rush hour traffic like it was no big deal. :-) When we got home from music, I had to deal with Fil. For some reason he was a little brat and I was counting the minutes until his parents arrived. Pat came home and finished preparing the meal and her sister, Louisa came over for dinner. The meal of fantastic-pork fillet, potatoes, homemade wine, and spinach. But before dessert I left to hang out with Barbara. We watched Pirates of the Caribean (spelling sorry). We both didn't like it very much but had a good time laughing at it and being kid free.
It still hasn't snowed and was actually very warm yesterday. I woke up this morning and noticed the mountains are covered in snow. This makes it feel a little more like December. Well of to work but have a great day and blog to you soon
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