Italy

It's raining and freezing outside. We are doomed to go nowhere tonight. Or ARE we?! Henry and I packed our fake bags and headed to Italy tonight.

We started off the evening by cooking his favorite and my extra-specialty: Farfalle Al Sugo Bianco (or as he likes to call it, "White Pasta", whatever you want to call it is fine). It's really just bowtie pasta with my take on alfredo sauce with it. If I were to make it the way I really like it, it would have had prosciutto and a little pesto added too. (I'm working on Henry and trying to get him to eat "the green things". All in good time.)

So we cleaned our plates and took a walk to see the tourist attractions (or down the stairs to the tv equipped with Netflix). Unfortunately, since his bedtime is 8:30, we had very little to time to take pictures or really learn very much, but here is a recap of what we did find out about Italy:

Venice is known as the most beautiful city in the world. We all know their streets are really canals and they have quirky little boats called gondolas. One interesting little piece of info we caught was that in the city of Venice, they will only issue three new gondolier licenses per year even though hundreds apply. I guess it's nothing like driving a taxi here in the states...

There's an annual horse race in Siena that bids the different neighborhoods against each other. There's some huge rivalry and everyone hates each other.

Ferrari.

Sicily is an island. Thought you should know.

The Vatican has ruled the Catholic religion for over 17 centuries. Yeow.

Rome. Coliseum. Aqueducts.

Italy is the world's largest wine producer (good thing I didn't skip that with dinner!)

Apparently they kiss everyone over there. A lot. I'm not too sure I could go along with that. I have issues with bodily fluids and personal space. Ugh. Do you think if they go in for the smooch and you sneeze, they'll lay off? Doubtful. Maybe a decent distraction could help one avoid the smackers...

Speaking of distraction, I got a little side-tracked.

So Henry and I learned a few tidbits of information, took a couple of pictures and had a great dinner.  We plan to revisit Italy often (because who wouldn't?), but have some other great recipes from other great countries that are dying to be tried. Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

Arrivederci!