Italy in Christie's eyes part 2

The Things I am going to miss from Italy....

- Yummy gelato (italian style ice cream)

- The friendly italian people

- Spending two weeks with just me and my husband

- The food ("foccacia" bread, spaghetti, Kebab, liliana's risotto, piada's, and eating pizza all the time)

- Parking wherever you want and putting your "emergency flashers" on without a second glance from anyone. Granted you cant stay there forever but it is still pretty cool and a lot of Italian drivers do this.

- Even though the italian drivers are crazy sometimes, they dont hang out in the fast lane like some Utah drivers. I am going to miss that.

- Getting sweet deals at the market.

- Buying and wearing dresses around town

- Seeing BJ's face light up when he spoke italian, you can see and feel the love he has for the italian language as well as the people.

- The romantic city of Venice and the gondola ride

- Singing crazy songs in the car with BJ on our way to the different cities :0)

- I keep saying how beautiful Italy is, well Switzerland is even more beautiful

- Gaining a love for history



- Listening to the beautiful Italian language

The things I am NOT going to miss from Italy....

- Humidity!

-Having everything monitored electronically...only in Italy will you have your hotel tell you that you got a ticket for driving in a bus zone.

- Not having any speed limit signs posted on the "autostrada" or freeway.

- Paying for every highway we drove on; stupid toll roads.

- People smoking in your face and everywhere you turn.

- The wierd bathrooms where the shower curtain encloses either the toilet or the sink so everything gets wet when you shower lol

- The two drunk men that hit on me in Venice. The second one headed in for a kiss, but luckily I saw him out of the corner of my eye and bolted to BJ who was in buying some food at a pizzaria.

- Having to buy water bottles cause there are no drinking fountains and instead of free water at restaurants you have to pay for a water bottle. Whatever happened to good ole' free H20.

- Not understanding what anybody is saying and having to have BJ translate everything. Ok ok it wasn't that bad, by the end I could pick up what they were talking about for the most part but church was pretty boring, it is really hard for someone in relief society or even BJ to translate when people talk fast or especially when they are reading something.

All in all our trip was AMAZING to say the least! BJ and I both feel very blessed to have had this opportunity. We are really excited to start our family but it was nice to spend some time with just the two of us, and go to such a beautiful country!