In Tuscany

Buon Gioro from Tuscany. Brian got us here safely in our mini bus on Saturday. We can't even stand it, the countryside it so awesome.

The house we are staying in is just beautiful. I am going to take pictures of every room. The first night, we had a fire, and Judy made supper. We just walked around and admired the beauty of the place.Yesterday, we went to a freezing small church in our town for Mass. Then we went into the closeby town, and Brian and I walked back, about 5 km. I bet I took 100 pictures on the way. In the afternoon, we napped and then all of us went for a drive. Our hosts, Annunziata and Mario invited us all for a Tuscan supper last night. It was amazing. We had bread with liver pate when we got there ( and Mario's wine of course), homemade ravioli with tomatoes and meat, chicken scallopini, lamb, artichokes prepared two ways, asparagus, salad, bread, I can't remember if anything else. It was amazing. Oh yeah, 2 desserts. Certainly the best meal we have had. They were wonderful hosts, but they don't speak English and Brian was pretty tired translating the whole night. Mario is interesting, He loves to 'touch' if you get my drift, and asked us all if we 'slept in love' the first night we were there. Brian told him that we don't talk about those things in Canada.

Today, we are at San Gimingnano, where Brian and I stayed before. I found this internet place and now I am going shopping. We are in bigger centers most days this week. I'll try to stay in touch.

Judy is sick and I feel bad for her. We are all sleeping well, from exhaustion, I think (oh yeah, and for some, the wine). But it's a long time to be away from home and on the go and we are all starting to miss the families, especially those babies.