It's finally here, my first actual post from Italy. I won't be able to add pictures and things until we get a little more settled.
It is 3:00 am and Earl and I are in the hotel business center filling out required paperwork and studying for our driving exam which will be on todays agenda.
We are staying in a little town called Pinetamare about 20 minutes from the Support Site. We arrived late morning on Sunday and within an hour we had almost been sideswiped and ground into pizza topping while being driven to our hotel. Welcome to Napoli!!!
We are currently in the processing portion of our move so I won't have much to report on the amazing history and site seeing yet...but it will be coming SOON! Yesterday at the big meet and greet I discussed and picked up information on a weekend wine tasting event in Chianti in early September, Oktoberfest in Munich in late September (hmmm), the EuroChocolate festival in Perugia in late October and Midnight Mass at the Vatican on Christmas Eve and that is just a sampling. There are daily local tours as well and I heard husbands talking about their wives who even catch the "rotater" the military flight to Crete on Thursday morning, spend the night and come home on Friday night. I am so freaking excited!!!!!
We found out Earl will be going on travel for three weeks in the not so distant future so it will be imperative for me to figure my way around on the roads, with the locals, and following up with all of our paperwork and moving. August is the big holiday for Italians so househunting is not as easy as other months...hopefully we'll find a home before Earl leaves. Our express shipment arrived here on August 2nd which is amazing so I'll have the essentials that we packed ready and waiting. My Element and our big shipment of household goods will get here sometime in November. We will have to buy a car in the next week so that I'll be able to get around. Our sponser is great but he and his wife just had their 6th child and are a little bit busy...plus there's not much room left in their Suburban for me and Taryn. He took us to meet his wife Latika yesterday and 5 of the 8 strollers parked inside the entrance to the building were his...OMG!!!
Taryn filled out all of her paperwork for the Boys & Girls Club of NSA Naples and can't wait to start school and hit the teen center in the afternoons. There is a Navy shuttle she can take between the support site and Capodichino where Earl will be working and she can hitch a ride home with him after hanging out for a couple of hours. We also heard the school bus system is very good.
I am not enthralled with the feel of the support site asthetically although it provides convenience and access to most things "American" that we may need. We were forced to eat fast food there yesterday and let me tell you how much I enjoyed my Taco Bell Grilled Stuft Burrito with a mayonaisse and pickle relish dressing...barf! Enough said. The site where Earl will be at and where we intend to settle down near lifted my spirits it is "perfect" for me, older, quainter, quieter, better food, great gym, theatre, campus for taking Italian....I can't wait!!!
Well, I better study for that driving test...but honestly what's so hard about driving in Naples? That being said...you all know I love you right?
Ciao for now, Danette
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That last paragraph was so funny I laughed out loud. I understand totally about driving in Italy. They should give badges and medals, badges saying in big letters I DROVE IN ITALY. Waiting to read all about your adventure.
Love to all, Aunt Catherine
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