My Italian Holiday, Etc., etc.

Egads! I have been away from my blog site in sooo long. My apologies to the three readers that I have (LOL!!!!). One stated that I've been away so long the dust on my site is getting kinda thick. Hahaha! Thanks, TrueBlue. I just needed that nudge to get me back on track. I started writing the post below in July after I rested a bit from my trip the month before. I don't exactly know what happened but I never finished my entry...life is funny that way. Anyway, here is what I started to write and wanted to post in July (Yikes, it's OCTOBER!).

Hubby and I went on vacation to Italy (Milan, Como Lago, Brunate, Venice) last month. One of the things I love about travelling is to see how the other people live, eat, have fun, etc. And, of course, to try speaking another language. Milan IS the shopping capital of the world. I don't care what Beverly Hills denizens believe, Milan is IT when it comes to high-fashion and shopping. The girls were just so well-dressed and full-on fashionistas (made me feel down-right dowdy). I was in awe as I watched them walk in their stilleto heels on those cobbled pavements that European cities are so renowned. I wondered if they went to school to have that talent. I wore 1/2 inch heels on my sandals and still managed to trip-up on those uneven walkways they have. I also wondered how their make-up didn't just melt (like mine did) under the hot sun. Do these women even sweat? That question was answered when we rode around the trams and buses in the city...peeyew! TAXI! Some of those chicks needed to take lessons from the French on how to cover up some of that odorous stuff. Another thing I noticed and wondered about was how the Italians could afford to live in those high-end cities. EVERYTHING was expensive! The US dollar has slipped so low behind the Euro that I was having a hard time swallowing (literally) its affect on my pocketbook. The poor greenback just isn't cutting it these days against the foreign currencies. Sigh. But, I was on my European vacation and I am going to effing enjoy it! So my mantra was, DON'T CONVERT. Gulp. GERONIMO, CHARGE!!! (And that was all I wrote back in July. Like I said, I never finished my entry.)

I'm sure I had some other things that I wanted to mention back then, but somehow it just doesn't seem that important now...The one thing that I wanted to share with you, and that I got a great chuckle from, was graffiti in Venice. The rest of my Italian photos I'll post on my Family album later. Here's that photo I took while on a stroll in Venice:The Italians HATE Bush, too! I knew I liked Italians.....