Un Buon Compleanno

Today was my birthday. This morning, we got a car sharing car to drive out to a region known as the Colli Euganei. These are hills that were formed by volcanic action, and there are a ton of vineyards there. Dave found a great one that gave us a tour of the vineyards as well as the barrels. I don't have the right words to use for this right now as the tour was in Italian and I understood about 60% of it. Just like at the Colosseum. We bought some wine to bring home and asked for a suggestion for a lunch destination. 

They've been troopers on a few different activities with not much excitement for them.

Lunch was fantastic! They had a cinghale dish, which Ethan is always excited about. Cinghale is wild boar, and it's a dish that is pretty specific to a few regions around here in Italy, I think. I have not had time to be hungry on this trip. There is always another meal to have. We are, at least, eating well. Most, if not all, of the food we've eaten has been fresh. After lunch we took a rest period at the house. Then we took out the soccer ball and headed to the Prato. On the way we found cannoli at a new Sicilian place in town, which is what I wanted for my birthday. It was excellent! The boys only played for a few minutes because the bugs were pretty annoying. 

I'll find the pics of them playing four years ago and compare them on Facebook.

Finally, Dave got some fresh gnocchi and prepared dinner again tonight. We played a couple of hands of euchre, which is still pretty hilarious as the boys don't have quite all the rules down yet.