ok so i have to work on a little presentation...but before i do that and before i tell you ALL about Easter weekend in Florence with ALEXINE (which was amazing!!!) I have to tell you about dinner tonight....so we had a very long dinner tonight and it was just so fun..nonna showed us pictures from her wedding in 1949! she was (and is) such a beautiful little woman :) she showed us three pictures...one duringhte ceremony and two outside of the church. she got married in a church near the Piazza del Duomo, right in the center of Florence. she was 25 years old when she and nonno were married. and on May 4 they will have been married for 60 years! it was just so cute the way she was describing it...she is so happy. and she totally came out of her little shell tonight ... we were talking about the differnet churches in Florence, their different styles..she has these books which are essentially like the Encyclopedia about all of Florence art. and we couldn't remember the style of one of the churches, so she whipped one of those out and started reading out of the book. i really wanted to take a picture...she is so little, she has a little bit of a hard time leaning over the table to read the book that is way too big for her, and she had on these cute little reading glasses on, and she was mumbling to herself in Italian--she was determined to find out what style Santa Maria Novella was built in! She is jsut so cute and sharp as a tack....later she also told us that she is 85 and her birthday is coming up... "fra poco"...but she did not tell us when it is! she said it would be a surprise and there will be a "festa"! she is so cute...
anyway...dinner tonight was just so fun and memorable and i could have talked with her for hours. i cannot believe i am leaving so soon...i dont want to think about it. i am gonna miss nonna!!!! ( and her cooking ... :)
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