Gubbio By Day

11-25-12

I woke up at around 10:30 this morning and got dressed.  I went to the kitchen and had breakfast with Janie and we talked with the woman for a while.   Then we went upstairs with the man and collected fresh eggs from the chicken pin.  We went grocery shopping a little bit later a to get ingredients for lunch and when we got home, we watched some tv until it was ready.

We had carbonara (I think that’s how it’s spelled) for lunch.  It’s pasta with eggs and bacon and it is super good!  Then we got ready to go out with the man and the dogs.  We walked around Gubbio for a couple of hours and it tops everything I’ve seen in Italy so far.  The city is sooo beautiful! I took a little over 200 pictures.  We walked on this path that led to the top of the city and we went into a small museum.  Then we went to the center and got another delicious hot chocolate.  The man was like our tour guide.  He was explaining all of the history of the city as we walked along.

We headed home and the whole family sat in the living room watching tv with the fire place on.  The cat was also sleeping on me.  I was so relaxed and it was just an amazing day.  Janie and I kept talking about how wonderful our weekend was.  We had so much fun and we were both just extremely happy the whole time.  I ended up falling asleep for a while.  I was so comfortable.

At around 8, my host parents showed up and we all went out for pizza.  Everybody ate and talked until around 10:30 and then we said our goodbyes and drove home.  Janie and I are hopefully going to go back to Gubbio in the beginning of December for a Rotary dinner and to spend the night again. 

It probably wasn’t very good for our Italian skills, but this weekend was a very relaxing, happy, English speaking weekend.  I can’t wait to go back. 

It is now 1 in the morning and I have school tomorrow… oh boy.  Here’s to the next week!

Buonanotte!

~Devon