Anniversary in Italy

Well, this was a big weekend of celebrations for us. First, and most importantly we celebrated our second wedding anniversary. Second, we celebrated that we have successfully completed a three-month stay in Italy. And finally, the fact that we are now officially illegal aliens! Woo hoo!

For our wedding anniversary we went to a nice restaurant here in Zagarolo. We contemplated a trip to Naples for an afternoon of world-famous pizza, but these last two weeks of work have been tiring and we still don't get paid until November, so we decided to lay low. It was a nice dinner, we did the traditional 5 course Italian style meal, and Charles was brave enough to order the Tripe (a Roman specialty made of intestines). All of the food was really good, but not outstanding. We are still looking forward to that moment when we are knocked off our feet by an Italian meal (we probably have to go to Bologna for that).

During dinner we talked about the ups and downs that we have experienced so far in this adventure, and we decided that we feel really good about everything right now. We have good jobs that we actually enjoy, we are making good money, we live in a great place, and there is little that we are stressed about (much different than a month ago). Despite that fact that we are supposed to be on a plane heading out of this country, we feel ok. After all, there are over 2000 Romanian illegal immigrants in Zagarolo alone. Who's going to notice a couple of Americans?

Because of the drop in our stress level we are afraid that our postings may be a bit more boring than those of the previous months, but at least now we can plan some fun adventures to write about. For example, we are thinking about spending Christmas in Paris, so that is in the works, and we still plan to make that trip to Naples for pizza (so Charles can find out if this move was really worth it!).