Slept in. Started heading downstairs for some food and was stopped by people leaving for the antique fair, so I got better shoes on and went with them. It was amazing. So many antiques! Mom, you’d LOVE it! Took as many pictures as I could, without being rude.
These are puppets.
There was at one point one of those human street statues just standing in one spot, frozen, and a little boy about 3 or 4 just staring at him unsure of what to think. It was so adorable. And the mom let him stay and ponder as long as he wanted, every now and then nudging him to continue down the road, but he wanted to continue watching. Very cute. I bought three old Italian magazines from 1956, 1957, 1958. One has Liz Taylor on it!
Joey and I got pizza at a little pizzeria downtown. It wasn’t that great. It was runny, like milky, watery pizza, instead of cheesy and delicious, but we were HUNGRY! And I got a coca cola! So it was worth it!
We split up and he walked back to the villa but I needed stamps so I could finally send my postcards! So I got some stamps at the tabbaci and mailed my postcards. Then went to the grocery store. I had remembered having a sip or two of Danielle’s amazing dark ale in Castiglione del Lago and wanted to buy some, so I got a three-pack of beer while at the grocery store. Turns out it was the wrong beer. I was even going to bring one home to my sister because I thought it was so good. I’ll just give it away now. It’s really light; Rachel doesn’t like pale ale. I also finally got some disposable razors and shaved my legs!! If you know me well, you know this is a big deal. So, I shaved my legs when I got home and was amazed that it only took one razor for each leg! That’s been my problem at home! I’ve been using the cheapy razors, so I’ve had to use two or three if I’ve let mah leg hair go! Now I know. :)
That evening, I met up with Joey, Ben, Alex, Anna, Jeremy, Doreen and Scott (a staff member who drove us) and we went to the Opera. Don’t get too excited; it wasn’t amazing. It was more like community opera, so only one or two of the singers had actually been trained but I enjoyed it. We drove there and if you’ve ever driven in Italy, you know the streets are extremely narrow and Italians drive like mad-men, so it is a good thing Scott is originally American.
The Opera was Cosí Fan Tutte by Mozart, not one of his better ones, in my opinion, not only because it’s about two men who make a bet with an old man that their fiancés would never cheat on them, so they dress up as foreigners to seduce them and they end up cheating. Lame. But it was entertaining. It was put on by the Shoestring Opera company outside an old convent, in the woods. So, my feet and legs were eaten alive by terrible biting ants and sucking mosquitoes, but it was okay.
On the way home, there were amazing fireworks! There were tons of people from all over parked on the sides of streets and even people who came into our villa and atop our teatrino where you can see everything! The fireworkds were unlike I’ve ever seen! They were huge! I wish I had taken a picture or two. Maybe I can find one on Facebook for you. If you think of the fireworks we have in America, that you’ve seen on say July 4th, imagine them to be about 500% bigger! I’m not even exaggerating. They were huge! They lit up the sky like a splash of paint that’s too large for the canvas! It was the highlight of my evening!
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