Day 6

I got to sleep in today since I got in late last night.  And by sleeping in I mean, Nonno did not knock on my door until 8am instead of 7am.  Ivonne made breakfast and then we needed to go into Sarricciolo so she could help out at the market.  Well, Nonno and I went with her but then decided to walk around for a bit instead of waiting inside the market.  On our walk I took pictures of some beautiful flowers...

... and Nonno pointed out some things such as a the main bridge into the town was blown up during WWII, so he had to use the railroad bridge in order to commute in and out of town.  Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the bridge, but I remember leaning over the bridge and staring into the water and thinking how terrifying to live 1 or 2 miles away and having bombs go off within such a short distance of your home.  

The afternoon was very calm and we went to go visit another one of Nonno's nephews; his name is Renato, the son of Zia Nella.  He also lives in Olivola and I got to take some fun pictures while I was there.  

Here is Nonno and I in front of the church where he got married.

And then I saw this sign...

So we had to take a picture underneath it.

Later that evening after dinner at Venezia's house, Mario (Magda's father) and Magda drove me over to Pisa and dropped me off with my cousin Massi and his girlfriend Gigliola (G).  After we dropped off my stuff at G's apartment, the three of us walked around Pisa for a bit and got some gelato.  It was very entertaining conversation considering G speaks broken English and Massi doesn't speak any English.  I got a picture of how the weekend was going to work with communication, but G and I kept using our dictionaries and I slowly started to pick up some words and phrases.