i am apparently 400 lbs
i'm baaaaack!
it seems that i love food so much that i talk about it all the time. seriously, after returning from my trip to canada (banf national park! and vancouver!), my trip to Houston, and my lovely two week trip to europe, i must say, i just enjoy food. a lot.
in Italy, I was in love with the gelato. the pizza was great too, and the seafood pasta. did you know that in Italy, they mostly eat pizza without cheese? just dough, sauce, and toppings. and the ones that had cheese mostly had no sauce! i temporarily suspended my aversion to beer enough to enjoy it while i was in germany. the pastries in france were divine... yummy pain au chocolat et croissants... much smaller than the ones you get here, but definitely as rich. and the hazelnut butter (nutella and others) was so good too! plus, i love markets (and grocery stores), especially open air markets, so when we got to go to several of them in venice, including a fish market, i was pretty much in heaven (and wishing i had a stove and some pots and pans). the produce was superb as well -- and i did get a lot of fruit from those markets and thoroughly enjoyed all of it.
here's a picture of me at the fish market
however, apparently my non-stop food diatribe caused my travel companions some malaise. at the end of the trip, one of B's friends (who became my friend too after two weeks of living together) told me - in earnest - that if he were blind, he would think i weighed 400 pounds. encroyable!
anyway, i know i've been gone for a bit, but it was so much fun! we did a lot of walking, a lot of sight-seeing, and a lot of partying -- especially at the wedding in germany. it was a really small town of only 420 people! i'll try to post some more pictures of the actual wedding and talk about all the different wedding traditions they have in my next post, but for now here is a pic of us on the night before.
so much fun! i'll try to catch up with all of you soon & thanks for the comments while i was away!