Day 4

Our fourth day started a little different since Ivonne had to work, so instead of having breakfast at the house, Armando took Nonno and I into 'town' / Sarricciolo. In Italy, they call their cafes, bars; so we went to a bar for breakfast :)

The next stop of the day was to go visit Armando's son Yuri at work. All three of them are butchers at grocery stores and Armando and Yuri work at the same store. Then we headed out to a cute Medieval town, that I have no idea the actual name of, but it was fun to walk around.

Definitely an exciting part of the day was going to my Nonni's home village, Tavernelle, which was a very long drive through the mountains. Nonno said that it took him 2 hours on a bike to go visit Nonni. Don't ask me how they met, because I still don't know the answer. So here is a picture of me at Nonni's house...

And this was so cool. This is a picture of where the locals, and most likely my family, used to wash their clothes. So the water used to go into these stone tubs and that's where the local laundry facility was located.

We then ventured through the jungle of Italy and down a road which was overgrown with trees and weeds to visit Armando's horse. I forgot his name, but he was a pretty horse.

After lunch, Armando and Yuri took Nonno and I to visit castles and I loved it! Some castles were closed to visitors and others were still being lived in. How fun would it be to live in a real Medieval castle?! Obviously with a few modern adjustments, but still, so exciting!

This was the first castle.

And the second...


And the last castle...



This is a picture of the family tree tapestry for the castle.



And then some fun shots in the castle gardens where we waited for the tour guide to give us a private tour!

For dinner that night we headed over to another cousin's house: Venezia (my cousin), her husband Mario, their daughter Magda, and their son Marko. They fixed BBQ ribs and chicken, roasted potatoes and for dessert, copetta with raspberry sauce!