Settling into a Routine

Sorry for the lack of news lately, it's just that things are finally going really well. No news is good news.

We've just finished up our first full week of work and we're pretty exhausted. Work has been really fun and rewarding (even more so when we get rewarded in cash) so far. During the week we get home any time from 5 to 8:30 and after we cook dinner we're usually so tired that we just head for bed. Pretty lame, right? Well, yeah, but it feels pretty good to be adjusting to this new routine. It hasn't been as hard for me as I thought, considering four months ago my average bedtime was around 3:30 to 4:00 AM.

It feels great to start becoming part of the rhythm of the city, no longer tourists. Well, we still are tourists but now in a different manner. Now we know how the Romans must feel everyday when trying to rush to work with the streets full of gawking tourists who, rightly so, are in no rush at all.

We were planning a trip to Naples for our two-year wedding anniversary on October 15th but I think we may be postponing it until November. In any case, we'll celebrate in style most likely in Rome for the night.

Overall, things are going very well for us, our next project is to buy some books begin studying Italian during our 40 minute train rides. We've learned a lot of vocabulary over the last three months but we are dying to be able to spit out a sentence that doesn't sound like a caveman said it. Plus Allie has to learn Italian so she can go work at the Sicilian Treat shop (pasticceria) so when we come back to America we'll be able to fatten you all up.