DAY 117

Saturday 5 November 2011

Yet another slow day in our Piegaro Palace. The sun was out, and Dian and Nicole walked down to Christiana's store to look around (it is quite a store to look around in, with tons of knick knacks of every shape, size, and category) and buy a few gifts for the holidays and for friends. Nicole found something to give her friend Lisa whom she would be seeing in a matter of days and got a great old clock for her own room as an early birthday present to herself.

Walt Disney box, but Warner Brothers characters?

Because she was closing soon for pranza and we didn't have enough money with us, she said to come back later to pick up the clock. Nicole had been eyeing a hair clip, and Christiana said to keep it.


The hair clip!

 Dian and Nicole came back with money and a bag of sour candies for her, but they wanted to explain that they were sour before she tasted them, so Christiana handed Nicole an English-Italian dictionary. She could not find the word "sour", so instead she searched for "tart." After showing Christiana the word, she looked puzzled, and tried to explain that, as in English, there was a double-meaning for that word, as in a woman of ill repute. We laughed after she told us, and Nicole finally found "sour," thereby making Christiana comfortable enough to pop one of the candies in her mouth.

Charles had gone to pick up some groceries, so Nicole and Dian met him at the store, then went to the butcher to possibly pick out something special for dinner. We settled on .5kg of pork and beef, which they ground right in front of us and even pressed into patties for our dinner. They offered to add some spices, and the result was delizioso!

Now that's quality.