Hope you had as wonderful of a day as we did! We were planning on going to a church somewhere (either in Catania or on the military base), but our plans fell through. Eric & Kelsey headed out to the military base for church, but were unable to get ahold of the chaplain (a friend of Eric's), so they headed back home to Aci Trezza. Because the chaplain felt so bad about the mishap in the morning, he invited us all over to his house on the base for Easter dinner with his family. We headed to Nate & Eric's around 2 for some 'pre-dinner' snacks . . . bread, olive oil, proscuitto, and lots of cheese! We all piled into the car and left for the base around 4. The chaplain and one of his son's, Seth, met us outside the base and brought us onto the 'housing area' of the base. As soon as we got onto the base we were all in love! GREEN grass growing everywhere, American cars in driveways, basketball hoops, grills, fire pits, and a Texas license plate to top it all off! The chaplain's family was absolutely incredible! Him and his wife have 4 children - Katie & Peter are both 13 and they adopted them from Russia. Virginia is the next youngest and Seth is the baby of the family. We sat outside on the driveway and enjoyed some crackers with cheese . . . CHEDDAR cheese actually! We were all so excited! They also brought us out drinks - mason jars filled with ICE and water or sweet tea. They had just bought a grill the day before so they wanted to try it out for Easter. We sat outside and watched the chaplain and Peter cook steaks marinated in Italian dressing, porkchops, and brautwursts on the grill! The meal was absolutely delicious! Along with the meat, we also had a salad (with ranch or Italian dressing), baked potatoes, sour cream, butter, salt & pepper, and brownies & apple pie to finish the meal off. The family was so very nice - the kids were too funny! Seth let us watch one of his favorite videos on the tv, and the boys also got to watch some good ole' American baseball! We're hoping that they come to the next home game (this weekend!) against Parma! Here are some pics!
After our adventures at the base, we all traveled back to the Lake casa! I skyped my brother & my grandparents (including a few extra family members which was a bonus!), and Jordan skyped his family! After we finished talking to everybody, Jordan and I decided it was time to open our 'Easter baskets'. Here in Catania they don't do it like we do in America. There are no actual baskets, no fake green grass, and no reese's peanut butter eggs . . . or candy like that in general. No, here in Catania, they do giant chocolate eggs wrapped in plastic with prizes inside! When we first saw the eggs in the grocery store we had no idea what they were all about . . . so we bought one for each of us :) Jordan got me a pink Barbie egg (yay!), and he got a Pirates of the Caribbean themed egg. Upon opening them, we discovered that my egg contained a pink Barbie purse and Jordan's contained a Pirates of the Caribbean bandana. What an experience! The chocolate was delicious and we all had fun seeing what an Italian Easter is all about! Here are some pics of our egg opening courtesy of our friend Nate. I'd also like to give a shout out to my grandparents (Shirl girl & DDWinnie) for sending us a lovely Easter package in the mail containing an incredible amount of chocolate and also Easter eggs, fake grass, and a chocolate bunny! Opening that package made our day :)
Jordan was pouting because I got my egg open and he couldn't open his . . . typical :)
Missed you all on this very special holiday! Hugs & kisses to everybody!
Ciao
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