Alright so I had this post written a week ago and kept waiting to include some pictures, but it's not gonna happen at this point, so I'm just posting it!!
Last Saturday the girls planned a shopping day down to the town of Nove where they make ceramics. I wrote about this in a previous blog entry, but it's a town about two hours away that houses all the factories which produce ceramics for Williams Sonoma, Lenox, Tiffany's...etc. I bought many of my Christmas gifts there for family this year. Unfortunately, two of my gifts broke in the mail so I was finally able to replace the Christmas gifts yesterday. I'll get them mailed out soon. Christmas in June! I was also able to make some purchases for myself...they have so many beautiful things!!
All five of us were traveling in Meredith's truck. It is an American size truck on Italian size roads...I don't know how she does it! Anyway, needless to say it stands out like a sore thumb in any parking lot, because it is difficult to fit it into one space! While outside of one of the ceramic factories there was a little boy (around 2ish) and his grandfather admiring our "grande machina" (big car). The grandfather was taking the boy around the truck and letting him stand in the bed of it while we were loading our boxes of ceramics into the back. I started talking to the man because he knew a little English. He asked where I was from and I said the United States, usually that answer is sufficient for anyone asking over here. But he asked where in the States and I said Tennessee. He then told me (from the parts I understood) he had a son who was selling paintings at some convention type thing put on by Southern Living magazine in Nashville! He said he went to visit him for two weeks and stayed at the "Gay Opera Hotel". I took that as a translation of Gaylord Opryland Hotel. He said it was "bellisima" (beautiful) with the gardens and the river inside.
The world is really small!
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