Pizza Files

Alright it's finally my turn to blog! Although Amberly has done well so far, I find it only fitting that I get to start my blogging career by reviewing our first Sicilian birthday pizza party.  Our teammate Christian, who might as well be the mayor of Catania because he knows everyone, invited us to his sister's birthday party at his family's vacataion house at the foot of Mt. Etna. We were picked up and driven there by Christian's best friend, Carrado, who happened to be the chef. So after a "quick" trip to the store, we were on our way to the party, which was an adventure in itself. Catania rush hour traffic is a giant joke to me and we both felt like we were going to die multiple times. So after a few close calls, we made it to the party, about 45 minutes away from our place. Little did we know, we were the first people there, and Amberly and I were in charger of cutting up the massive amounts of mozzarella cheese. The house was super sick, but it is being rennovated so there was no heat and it was colder inside than it has been all year in Houston. We spent about 45 minutes of slave labor cutting the cheese (literally), in below freezing temperature untill our hands went numb. Luckily by then, the other Elephant players had arrived and we were able to finally relax and let the chef do his thing...

So for the next 4 or 5 hours, we were treated like family and got to expereience an authentic Sicilian party while drinking Vino, eating homemade pizza, and trying to learn as much Italian as possible.

The old person in that picture is the grandpa of the family, that made sure our glasses were never empty... even if we didn't want to drink anymore, he just kept pouring us vino and talking to us like we knew Italian. He was awesome. And to top it all off, we got to see some "liquid hot magma" erupt from Mt. Etna. The pictures we took don't do it justice, hence they are not shown. The whole night was an amazing experience and so much fun.

End Pizza Files