Nutella and Croissants
January 18, 2010Hello All!
Hope all is well where ever you may be. Currently I am in Torino, Italy enjoying a much quieter city than Rome. Seeing that we are in Northern Italy right next to the Alps it is much colder! Feels like home, but its okay because I rather get used to the weather before I get home.
It seems as though I am in the land of Nutella and Croissants… because we have it every single day. Looks like I will have to work out double hard when I get back. But I might as well enjoy it while I can right 
. (Jackie… don’t tell Monica!)
The past few days have been visiting the 2006 Olympic Complexes. Yesterday we went to the Palavino which is where they hosted the Figure skating in 2006. We all got to skate on the ice, which was quite fun 
. From there we were on our own, so a few of us girls headed to a cute Italian restaurant. The food was simply amazing! And for dessert my professor let me try her Tiramsu… I think I found a new favorite. Looks like I’ll have to come back to Italy every so often to get my Tiramsu fix.
This morning we got up for an early visit to the rest of the complexes. Unfortunately it was very foggy in the morning so it was hard to see the entire city. But once a few hours had passed, the sun made its way through and shined on the Italian Alps. It made us all super excited for our skiing adventure in a few days.
So tomorrow we leave for Sestrine, Italy where we will spend two days skiing and doing other winter sports. I am planning on going bobsledding, but the rumor is that a women’s olympic team is practicing seeing that the Winter Games start in less than a month! But either way I am will probably see some bobsledding (crossing my fingers so I can actually try it out!). Other than that, we will for sure be doing cross-country skiing (looks like my Asa Clark Middle School days will pay off!) and I am going to try and downhill ski for the very first time!
So as you can tell all is well here. However, I am ready to come home. I miss all of you like crazy! But I will for sure enjoy my last few days.
A special Happy Birthday to Miss. Jessica!
Love and miss you all.
I am so excited that you got to go ice skating in Italy! So cool. And thanks for the birthday shout out.
Can’t wait to see you on Sunday! Is your flight still set to come in at 5? Miss you!
You can actually get that tiramisu stuff here in the states but I am not sure if it is the same. We should go on a tiramisu tasting adventure sometime.