First Day in Italy

Wow, I’m in Italy! Today was the final day of the Bella Befana bazaar on the Aviano airbase. Aunt Tracy took us to show me off and let Mommy and Daddy check out some the cool stuff that vendors from around Europe bring in to 2 huge F-16 hangars. We had our first meal in Italy; gyros and some sort of Philipino food – I know, that’s not Italian right?! But the military personnel had prepared food to sell at the bazaar. Mommy and Daddy were so hungry and jetlagged that anything sounded good, but they did bypass the hotdogs.

Aunt Tracy’s friends and colleagues were all very excited to meet me and of course thought I was a very cute guy. We shopped around for a while and bought some Christmas gifts for people and a few bottles of wine for Mommy and Daddy.

After the bazaar we made a quick trip to the Base Exchange store and Commissary to pick up some food items, mostly bottled water for me, and stuff that we would need while visiting. We came home and I was so tired that I had to take a nap, I had screamed so much the night before that I really missed out on some precious sleep time.

Aunt Tracy, Mommy and Daddy woke me up in time to go eat dinner at a true Italian restaurant in Aviano called the Spaghetti House; no really that was the name of the place. Daddy and Aunt Tracy had pizza and Mommy had spaghetti carbonara. I decided to sleep during most of the meal, I guess I looked pretty angelic because all these Italian women were fawning over me as they would pass by. Mommy and Daddy got their first lesson in Italian as a lady tried to tell them about her grandchildren. We got home and got ready for bed, I went to sleep pretty easily and only woke up once during the night. Mommy and Daddy are so happy to now be a bit more well rested. I can’t wait to see what we do today!