Every day life

Hiii - its lisa again :)

Just wanted to say that life here is getting so familiar, we are finally in some sort of a routine and we are loving it. Last weekend we stayed and explored florence, it was amazing to just see where we live, experience the ponte vecchio with all the tourists while not feeling like one, going out to delicious dinners (kristin brought us to this place called Pizzaiolo, which is famous as being the best pizzeria in all of florence). It was amazing, we had an appetizer with lots of little bread like things and then a huge ball of buffalo mozzarella which was SO fresh and when you cut into it it just like spread apart and stretched ... it was so so so good. Lena and Alex didn't like it so much.. a little too "right out of the cow" for them haha, but the rest of us (me, mich, tracy and kristin) loved it.. it was an experience to eat. Then we all got different pizzas and shared... it was delicious. I love drinking wine with every meal too here, i wish we could do that in america legally because wine is so good with dinner!

We did some other touristy things around florence on saturday, but on sunday, since KB and i live RIGHT across from the soccer stadium (we can see it from our window), Lena and Mich came over to watch all of the Fiorenita fans completely dressed in purple go crazy for their favorite florence soccer team... it was chaos. the game itself wasn't open to the public because of some previous rioting that happened so we couldn't go to the game, but hopefully we will go to one in the future.

Otherwise life is great, classes are going well -- every day has become easier and we see more and more of florence. Onelise's dinners just keep getting better and better -- tonight Kristin and I are going to the market to buy stuff to make burgers and we are making Mario and Onelise an american dinner. I think they're nervous but we are so excited for them to try a burger with all the fixings because in Italy they just grill a burger and eat it with oil. We're also excited to cook beacuse we've wanted to this whole time.

This weekend all of our friends (about 9 of us) are going to Kristin's house in Chianti to have a relaxing weekend.. and then in a couple weeks we are going to Amsterdam! I'll let you know how that is -- we're really excited to all go on a crazy adventure together.

Ok thats all for now - more photos and such later! Miss & Love everyone

Lisa