HAPPY MAY

Hi Everyone, Hope you are all having a great may so far.

This past week I had a vacation because there was the labor day holiday in Italy. It was a nice break. Hard to go back to work this morning. I had to take my computer to get fixed, so I cannot load up the pictures from last week, but here is one that I took on my blackberry.

Yesterday, my friends Giacomo, Jessa and Pehr invited me to tag along to a town in the countryside called Certaldo. It was really near San Gimangano. We arrived and had to take a finicular up to the top. It was a small medieval village on the top of a mountain. It was beautiful. We walked around, they had a flower market, and tons of stands selling things, and then lots of places to sit and eat and drink! Of course we had to do that. It was a beautiful day and great weather. Then we walked back down to the town and drove to the WILD BOAR FESTIVAL. It was called Sagra di cingale. Basically you pay a set price and you can eat all you want.. but everything has cingale on it. which is suppppper yummy. we had tortelli with wild boar sauce, polenta with wild boar, then wild boar that was roasted. SUPPPPER GOOD! I should have taken pics of the food. oops! Anyway it was very good and really fun.

Then this past friday, dani, his dad and I went on another motorcycle rally (he has the pics on his camera, i will get them this week). We went out to chianti and went to an outdoor market. where dani bought me taralucci! they are just like the kakas that my grandma makes me but these ones were huge, like bracelets! but they were sooo yummy. Then we went to the famous city Greve in Chianti... and we a huge lunch with all the other people on the motos. This time it was an old vespa rally. so it was really cool to see all the vespas in different colors! then on our way home one of the guys in the moto club invited us to go horseback riding at his house. it was amazing, we went on an hour ride through olive groves, a river, forests, it was soooo amazing. I will put the pics up soon

WELL, miss you all! hope all is well xx