Past 3 weeks...

We finally got our phone and internet hooked up today, so here is what we have been up to the past few weeks... We moved into our new house on Tuesday 9/29 and then we ended up renting a car on that Friday since we needed to be able to get back and forth to base in order to do grocery shopping and everthing. We found a BMW to buy from a guy that Adam works with and we are going to be getting that later this week so I will post more about that later!! Yesterday we went on a walk around Pordenone and as always were completely and utterly amazed at what we saw and took tons of photos, people look at me like I am nuts, probably because they are used to all of this, but I walk around pointing and staring while they are all rushing past...probably they are thinking "Estupido Americano"...haha!! There are billboards everywhere you look and also some very inappropriate advertisements, they are WAY MORE open about that here than in the US!! We have a nice playground right outside the house here in our neighborhood and there are a lot of kids that Andrew likes to run around and play with so it has been fun, but I still cannot wait until November 12th when our stuff is supposed to get here, it will make things a LOT easier and more convenient!! We have seen lots of lizards and birds and they are right in the backyard. I am not sure if it is a good thing, but you can walk right up to the birds, they are not skittish of humans at all here, I just don't let Andrew touch since I am not sure whether or not they will bite!! Most of the roads here are actually the same width as in America, but they don't have shoulders here which is what makes them look narrow, but that being said there are a few which look like only one car should be able to fit but somehow Italians make it work as a two-lane road!! They drive very fast here, but do everything else very slow, mail takes WEEKS to get even across town we were told and when you call to make an appointment for anything, that can also takes weeks. Everything (stores, restaurants, etc) closes from 12-3 for their "rest time" because they stay up very late here!! They have a very interesting trash seperation system here, we have 5 different trash cans (one for regular trash non-recyclabes, the second for paper & cardboard, the third for plastic & metal, the fourth for glass and the fifth for organic waste such as leftover food). In two of the pictures you will notice bows hung outside someone's house. Here when you get married they hang a white bow on their car and outside their house, a blue bow means they had a baby boy and a pink bow means they had a baby girl. We saw quite a few actually just walking around, must be a good season for babies in Italy!! Now that we have internet we can keep in contact more often and I will take better pictures of the house next month once we get our stuff and it will actually look like a home!!!