Back in Italy

Home sweet Home
I spent a few weeks at home in Houston and it was great to see my family and friends. It was really good to be around English speakers and to see regular sized cars and to get some of my moms enchiladas! I went home for my good friend Jamie Hinshaw's (now Jamie Carter) wedding. Her wedding was amazing and beautiful and it was also a big softball reunion! When we were getting dressed for the wedding I put my dress on and my zipper malfunctioned! So Jamie's mom suggest I lay on the table while Lisa held my dress and she zipped. I was like are you sure you want me to lay over the table. She swore by this tactic and it worked! It was a good time.










While I was home I also went to Chicago for a few days with my mom, my little sis and my friend Amanda. The first day in Chicago we walked around the city, did some shopping, went to the Navy Pier and had some famous Chicago deep dish pizza! Then we went to watch a Pro fastpitch softball game. We saw the Philadelphia Force play the Rockford Thunder. The Force was my old team so I got to see a lot of my friends. The rest of our trip in Chicago consisted of seeing the United Center and the Michael Jordan statue, we went to the zoo and we ate at our new favorite restaurant Huck Finns. We had a few snags in our trip and one was the weather. When we left to go to Chicago it was over 100 degrees in Houston so naturally we packed lots of shorts and tank tops. We were shocked when we got to Chicago and it was the coldest its been in decades at this time of the year. We had to go to Walmart and buy warm clothes to wear the rest of our trip!

Reunited and it feels so good!
While I was at home I missed my bestfriend Ty! I couldn't wait to come back and see her! Me and Ty spent everyday for the last four months together so it was very emotional when I went home! Ty and Ornella picked me up in the airport in Bologna and I was so happy to see them. Me and Ty picked up where we left off. We noticed that when we laugh really hard at something nobody else around us is laughing. We think everybody else must have no sense of humor.

Italian Baseball
We went to a baseball game in Bologna and they were playing against Parma. It was an interesting experience. We didn't stay until the end of the game because the home team was winning 20-5, there wasn't much left to see. One thing I found out is that Italians don't have any trouble letting an umpire know how they feel. They didn't cut that poor umpire and slack! I don't know what they were saying but I know if I was that umpire my feelings would be hurt. Another interesting thing that happened during the game was in the 6th inning a fan of the visiting team (Parma) some how gets the attention of the whole stadium. He yells out to the stadium, if anybody has a problem with me they need to come tell my face! The whole stadium starts booing him and two guys get into with him and are almost fight but the guy was escorted away. I assumed this man had to be drunk but I was told he wasn't. I think he was!