La mia vita a Firenze: November 27, 2011

November 27, 2011

This morning I woke up at 8:30, got ready and then Franzi and I headed into town to experience the Florence Marathon. The bus didn’t go all the way into town because of the route but we just walked most of the way, which was actually nice after being cooped up most of the day yesterday doing homework. On our way to Santa Croce we found an antique market that was a lot of fun and we looked around there for a while. After that we walked the rest of the way to Santa Croce where the finish line was. It was pretty crazy there but a lot of fun. There was so much excitement and it was especially fun after having gone to the half marathon a few weeks ago. We got to see the first three men and the first three women, which was really exciting! After that we’d been there for about two hours so we decided to head home. We walked part of the way, I got a yellow balloon, and then we caught the bus home. Thankfully it was running again because we didn’t quite want to walk all the way home.

When we got home we started on the pumpkin bread. Tonight Franzi and I are making American breakfast for dinner for our family and we decided to get a head start on the pumpkin bread because it needed time to cool. We listened to Christmas music while singing along as we baked. While we were waiting for it to bake, I colored some pictures in my Christmas coloring book and then, after an hour, we took it out and it looked pretty good so hopefully it will be. After that Franzi headed out to meet a friend and I watched another episode of Parenthood. We started back up with our cooking around 7:00.

We started with the hash browns. I had never made them from scratch before so it was kind of fun and actually very easy. After that we made a fruit salad with apples, bananas and clementines. Following that I made French toast while Franzi made scrambled eggs with sausage and cheese. It took us a little bit longer than we thought it might so we ended up eating around 8:15 but it was so lovely. We sat down to French toast and syrup, scrambled eggs, pumpkin bread, fruit salad, hash browns, orange juice and milk. We even had a candle on the table! Daniela and Andrea were so excited and they wanted to know exactly what everything was. As if dinner weren’t already wonderful, the table was set so that we could watch Il Mago di Oz (The Wizard of Oz) while we ate. It was so much fun to watching in Italian, especially at the end of our trip when we can actually understand it. And Andrea had put on the English subtitles so we could see how all of our favorite lines were translated. And the songs were all the originals, in English so we were happy about that. Andrea and Daniela absolutely loved the meal and they neither could stop talking about the pumpkin bread (thanks, Mom!) Also, Andrea put so much syrup on his French toast and loved it so much that he even tried it on his fruit salad…he reminded me of you guys, Dad and Grandpa Gunard ;)

Once we were so full we couldn’t eat anything else, we paused the movie for a few minutes to clean up and push aside the table so we could sit on the couch to watch the rest of the movie. They kept trying to tell us that they would clean up but we had made such a mess in the kitchen that we wouldn’t let them do it without us. With all of us working together it certainly didn’t take long. We still had a loaf and a half of pumpkin bread left, which we were very excited about because now we can have it for breakfast and lunches! Once we were all cleaned up, we started up the movie again. It is already pretty late so I decided to finish up my blog while we were watching. We still have about an hour left of the movie so I will probably head to bed pretty soon after it is over. It has really been such a wonderful family night :) Just the perfect way to end the weekend! I hope you have all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend and been able to spend lots of time with loved ones.

All my love,

Kari