In Italy, Sundays are a day of rest. If a store chooses to remain open on Sundays, only family members are allowed to work. Combine a day of rest with a day of torrential downpour, and you are left with a sleeping city. Although, a sleeping city turned out to work in our advantage. Our Sunday consisted of eating, sleeping, eating some more, sleeping...repeat. We made it down to the center at 1pm, found an open cafe, enjoyed espressos and an elbatsonie(not sure about the spelling) Spinach filled pastries that Reggio is known for. while reading the Reggio newspaper. We were able to translate the article about Saturday nights baseball game. I am not sure if we should credit our new Italian skills, or the fact that we were at the game, therefor we knew what happened:)After finishing at the cafe, we walked around the center and did some window shopping. OK... I did most of the window shopping while Taber tried to distract me. He thinks if I do not notice the beautiful clothing and fabulous shoes, I will not be tempted to shop. Fortunately (for him) the window shopping was cut short when we noticed an open restaurant. The smell of fresh Italian food is near impossible to ignore...so we got a table for two. Taber ordered the pasta carbinara, it tasted like heaven...so delicious!After our afternoon of eating, we went into a food coma and slept for 3 hours.
Dusty, one of our roommates, has played in Reggio for the past 5 years. He knows his way around the city and what restaurants are open on Sundays. He took us to "La Tavernetta", a very cute restaurant tucked two floors below street level. We felt as if we were in a cave made of old brick. After dinner, we braved the rain and walked around the town center. Three main circles make up the town center. The newest circle, has a large fountain that lights up and changes patterns every few seconds. It is similar to the fountain downtown Olympia, only much bigger. Dusty and Jake decided to take a few runs through the fountain. Taber, Bianca, Chelsea, and I decided we were wet enough from the rain and did not need to run through the fountain. In this same circle, are benches that also light up and play music.
We finished the night with my favorite thing about Italy...gelato.
Although Sunday is a day of rest in Italy, we were able to have a fabulous day and enjoy the cafe, two restaurants, and gelatoria that remained open.
Taber played very well this past series. On Saturday night he went 3 for 4 and made some "Bravisimo" defensive plays.
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Krissie...pasta carbonara is indeed a great dish. I can make it for you!!! Easy to make so if you haven't figured it out , here's what you add to the pasta: fried pancetta, coarse black pepper, egg yolk and a little olive oil or alternatively, a cream sauce plus peas. and parmesan. Alternate add ons are butter and parsley. I make mine without cream. You can use bacon or ham or sausage[even turkey sausage] alternative to pancetta. When in Italy,stay traditional. Check out cooks.com, as I am sure they will have suggestions as well. Let me know how it turns out. Keep me posted as to Taber's prowess and how his team is doing. His team's website is in Italian. Hard for me to deciper. ENJOY. Film at eleven.
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