Trip To Our Neighborhood Italian Grocery Store

We needed to purchase some white bio gradable bags for our food wastes. So Ethan and I headed over to the local grocery store. Its not too far away. But it was alittle hot!!

Grocery Store!

Fruits and Veggie Area and where all the ladies are

congregating

Baby section (looks like dollar store packaging to me)

Cleaning products (again reminds me of a dollar store)

Bottled drinks, they are crazy big eh?

Our Town!

Ethan wanted an apple

Grape vines on the way home

our street

Ethan and Josh at the Lake

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Josh and Ethan at the lake

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Ethan at the Lake

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It Is September!

I can't believe it is actually September now! So crazy that we are now in Italy. And even crazier how much time has flown by since Josh got home in January. We got orders February, went through tons of hoops. Flew out in July. Time moves fast!

Also Ethan will be turning 3 in two weeks! 3!! I cant even believe it! He is getting so big!

We started potty training this week. It has been gradually progressing. Right now we are just focusing on going in the potty. We got jelly beans for him. ANd he gets one if he goes. If he sees them he can pretty much go on demand lol!

His birthday is the 15th. Not sure what we will be doing. I hope we get our stuff! Still waiting to receive all our belongings! Right now we have loaner furniture from base. And loaner silverware/pots and pans. We are just really ready to get our stuff and start settling into our house. 

Ethan has been really excited about his birthday. He asks a few times a day for cake and friends coming over for his bday lol. We told him we will tell him when its his bday.

This week Josh starts Airman Leadership School (ALS). So he will busy with homework and learning for about 7 weeks. Then he graduates! Im very proud and excited for him. I know he will do well!

Eating Out

So the count is 5 pizzas and 5 gelatos since I have been here in Italy. LOL. 

We have had the chance to eat at different pizzareas. And gone to many different geltao shops. 

The pizza is really good. They serve you this big personal pizza size. You can actually eat the whole thing all to yourself in one sitting. But unlike the US it will not stuff you or make you feel sick or bloated. Maybe because its all homemade?

Josh has tried a few different dishes here. I havent been that adventurous yet lol. Ive gotten 4 cheese pizzas and one pizza with, cheese, ricotta and spinach. Ill try more things soon!

We went to sea sea sea To see what we could see see see

Today we headed to the beach! One of the top things I have been looking forward to do. Also Ethan has never been to the beach. So I have been excited to bring him! Josh had off today. So another family joined us and we headed to the beach! It was so much fun.

The water was perfect! I have never been to a beach with such perfect temp water. It was not freezing and it wasn't hot it was nice and refreshing. 

Ethan hated it at first. The second a tiny wave hit his feet at the shore he started crying. But Josh took him out into the water and before we knew it he was swimming around.

We had a lot of fun. It was a goo day! After the beach we walked around the town next to the beach. There was tons of little shops and gelato places. So we stopped by and got some gelato. Josh ordered spaghetti gelato. Which is all ice cream that looks like spaghetti. It was fun and a tasty treat. 

Spaghetti gelato 

On the move

We have internet at our house now! Time to update!

We have been keeping busy lately. Josh has had the past week off and then a few Air force Family days off also. 

We spent time out and about. The other day we joined another family from a church we have been visiting and we went to the zoo! It was a lot of fun. Somewhat the same as an American zoo. But also different in the same time. 

We saw a lot of animals and then some were hiding. I think the highlights were the seal exhibit, which was within reach. Ethan loved feeding the goats! And seeing all the other animals was really fun. But nothing will top the South Dakota Reptile gardens for the reptile exhibit lol. 

Ethan counting the turtles. He was saying- 1,2,6, 1,2,1,2,4!

Cool seal exhibit!

Feeding the Goats 

In Italy when a family has a baby they decorate thier gate, fence, door with colored ribbons (blue-boy, pink- girl) It was funny to see that at the zoo they did it for new baby animals that were born. 

Mommy hippo and baby

GPS is Up and Running!!

Before we came to Italy we got a GPS from a pawn shop in South Dakota. Its something you need here. We had to purchase the European map downloads/updates. So we did. But little did we know it was going to take a million years to download. 

The internet in our hotel room on base is very weak. It stops working all the time. And is super slow. I went to the computer lab on base to try to update. And it took 45 min just to get to 11% done. I googled about it, and read that updates can take up to 3hrs! So I left!

I decided to try plugging it in last night to see if it would download during the night. And it did! It prob took 12 hours (literally) but it downloaded! So today we ventured out and it worked great! We took a trip to another indoor mall. This one was much smaller. And inside it had this place that was kind of like a superwalmart. But not crowded. And people in Italy dont wear PJS out. lol

But Josh found some really tasty pasteries so we bought a lobster tail. Not sure what its called in Italy. But I rem seeing it on Cake Boss! And always wanted to try one. 

So a day of driving around. Then this afternoon we went to our house. We meet the landlord there and picked up the key. The house looks great and the yard is done also. They did days worth of cleaning and cutting trees, cutting the grass ect.

We move in tomorrow and we cant wait!