Field Trip

Yesterday, Dana and her little boy Jericho, invited me to go with them on a trip to the winery. As I am often bored during the day and like the company, I decided to venture with them to the winery.

I am so glad I did! I just wish I'd brought my camera, because I missed out on some awesome shots.

The winery we went to was called Villa Sceriman and it was gorgeous! It was beautiful in the dead winter of January, so I can only imagine how beautiful it will be in spring. Dana says there is a canopy of wisteria in the spring, so I will have to go back and make sure I capture it.

We met up with a few other girls and immediately started tasting some wine. I sampled Prosecco, Marzemino( best described by others as grape juice with a kick) and a few others.

The neat thing abot ths place is they have large tables inside and out that you can sit, enjoy some wine and sample some delish snacks to go along with it. As a group we enjoyed Asiago cheese, bread, olives, speck ( a kind of dried meat, originating from the Tirol region between Italy and Austria) and Prosecco.

I ended up buying four bottles before we left and I'm sure I'll return for many more. I bought some Prosecco, two bottles of Marzemino and a bottle of Serprino. If any of you come to visit I'll have to take you there. I can't wait to show Sean this place when he gets back!

A Field Trip

I think I mentioned this earlier in the week, but Sean and I are doing Headstart this week on-post, which is basically a week of learning some Italian language and culture. It's been ok so far. The first two days were mostly all language, where I quickly learned that Sean doesn't pick up on languages quickly and has passed off the Italian duties to me.

Yesterday though we went on a field trip to the mall that is near here.

In my opinion the best part of the mall is the Wal-Mart esque store called Emisfero. Oh my gosh. It is amazing! I told Sean that I really hoped heaven looked like this. Aisles and aisles of cheap but good wine, fresh squid, shrimp and fish, tons of varities of cheeses, pasta galore and last but not least, two aisles devoted to yogurt. How can you not love a place like that?

The rest of the time we were there I used to salivate at the window displays filled with cute shoes and clothes (which all seemed a bit expensive to me) and had a little snach of gelato. I picked lemon and hazelnut. Both were tasty, but I'd have to go with the lemon as my fave. The only downside of the afternoon was that I left my umberella on the bench that I ate my gelato on. This was not good considering it was raining cats and dogs when we got out of the mall and having to wait 15 minutes in pouring rain for the bus did little to help my drowned rat appearance. By the time we got back to post I was literally soaked to the skin.

Today we are going out into Vicenza for lunch and a visit to the museum. It's still raining though, so I'm hoping this time I don't come back soaked.

So about the job interview...I'm pretty much 90% sure I have the job. She said as much and I did go in and bascially train for a few hours the other day, but we are just waiting for the background check to come in. I'm pretty sure that I'll pass that with flying colors since my background is pretty squeaky clean. I'll discuss the job more once I'm for sure about it.

In other news I have checked the results for the Army Photography Contest that I entered in December and although my pictures advanced to the national level, they didn't win. I was hoping one of them would, but now I have a whole year to work on my entries for this next contest.

Concerning photography, can anyone tell me what differences there are between Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Elements 7? I'm guessing CS3 is more what the pros use, but I'm not sure. I have Photoshop Elements and I'm trying to figure it out. Allison has been kind and tried to give me a few tips, but I think I'm going to have to buy some kind of dummy manual for it too. It's so much harder to use than Picasa!

One last question for you. Is anyone out there a scuba diver? I'm thinking of getting certified sometime in the next six months. I got the new Outdoor Recreation/ITR booklet of upcoming trips for this summer and they have several dive trips to be certified that are taking place in Croatia. It's something I'd really like to do, but I just wanted to know if anyone else out there was into scuba.

Well, I think that about wraps it up for me!

Ciao!