Il cibo qui è delizioso!

Translation: The food here is delicious!!

I'm a little behind because Jamie had his first day of work yesterday and then last evening, wi-fi in the Navy Lodge was down.

Sunday, we had our first going out to dinner experience in Italy with our sponsors. They originally wanted to plan for 7pm dinner but now that Riann and Lincoln are back on their regular routine, 7pm just wasn't going to work for us... ahem, Lincoln. Since we still do not have our car, and our sponsors only have a four-seater (not quite the size of the Fiat I took pictures of, but not much bigger either), we had to do a few trips to the restaurant. Imagine Jamie wrangling two carseats into a tiny car in 85+ degrees... Italians typically have dinner around 8pm, so the restaurant was empty except for us. They didn't even have the AC on yet, it was almost uncomfortably hot, though the staff was all very nice and accommodating for our early 5:30pm arrival.
Dinner was very good, caprese salad, bruschetta, a variety of pasta dishes, a little vino, we declined dessert mostly because Lincoln was done stuffing himself but they did bring us a round of limoncello. I was hesitant to drink it at first because the only other time I've smelled it, it was extremely potent. But this limoncello didn't look like the kind I've seen before, nor did it smell like the one I smelled before. This limoncello was like a shot of supersweet thick lemonade with a little liquor that I could actually handle. It was DELICIOUS! My tolerance might improve while living here.

Monday, Jamie left early on the 6:30am shuttle to Capodichino. That left me by myself with both Riann and Lincoln in a long time. We made it a good day just keeping busy, walking to the Exchange for band-aids for Riann (we think she burned her toes on the tile at the pool on Sunday), then had a nice little snack at the little cafe on base, a walk in the other direction on base to a playground while on the way to check out one of the other available apartments we are being offered to move into. I was able to go into the apartment while it was being cleaned and decided this one was a better set up for us than the other one mostly because it is at the back of the base and has much more privacy, and less car and walking traffic. We get the keys Thursday, and will move all of our stuff there Thursday or Friday... that should be quite a sight since we mailed 3 huge boxes to ourselves before we left the states and we have all of the luggage we brought with us, 2 carseats, etc and no car. In the meantime, we are staying in the Navy Lodge on a day-to-day basis, hoping each day our name will move up the wait list for a room so we don't have to move elsewhere. So far, we have managed to get in 2 extra nights here, keep your fingers crossed for us that we can get two more nights.

Jamie had his second day at work today while Riann, Lincoln and I dropped off paperwork to get a home phone line hooked up, our mailing address and mail forwarding corrected at the post office, got Riann signed up for a summer session of Gymnastics and checked out the library. Lincoln thought today would be a great day to be extra mischievous... he wore me out.

Jamie and I are working on planning our first adventure out this weekend tonight. We'll just be taking the bus and metro down into Napoli for some sightseeing since we still do not have a car. Oh how I miss having a car... and ALL of our own things.