Our Last Sunday in Italy {currently}

I’m currently…

sitting in our hotel room on base. Between last Wednesday and October 5, we’re going to spend 83 nights in a hotel. So there’s that. Hooray for someone else making my bed. Boo for living out of suitcases for that long.

listening to the washer and dryer run at THE SAME TIME! In an Italian home you can typically only have one large appliance run at the a time. Running both basically kills the electricity. I could run the oven and microwave together, but not the washer/dryer and the oven. Sometimes I could zap something quickly in the microwave for two minutes if the washer/dryer was on, but if it went for three minutes, all bets were off and I’d be in the dark. It took for-ev-er to wash/dry clothes, so I’m relishing the fact that I’m doing both at the same time. Oh, and I have the oven on, too…just because I can 🙂

eating all the meat (prosciutto and bresaola, mostly). I’m also pigging out on pear pasta, burrata cheese, gelato, frico, pizza, and anything else I can get my hands on before we leave. We have a going away dinner tomorrow night at one of my favorite restaurants and I plan on savoring every single bite.

excited to see my town one last time. There’s a festival going on today in Maniago; I like to think that they’re throwing us a farewell party. We’ve told our Italian friends that we’ll stop by today to say arrivederci, so I’m both looking forward to that and dreading the fact that those people and places won’t be in our life anymore. Tomorrow we’ll head back to town in the morning to meet our landlord and hand over our keys. Cue the tears.

I’m seriously currently…

in denial that we’re leaving. We board our plane in four days. It doesn’t seem like it’s really happening. I don’t even know what to say…