To get everyone excited for Christmas, here's some photos from the holiday season in Lecco!
Okay these first pictures are actually from Milan at our friends Sarah and Alessandro's apartment, but they are still holiday related so I figured you would let it slide. We went over to Sarah and Alessandro's to celebrate Thanksgiving (Sarah's American, Alessandro's Italian) and to make the closest approximation to the traditional American dishes as we could!
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Ale working hard on the dressing.
I learned that its called stuffing when its cooked in the turkey, and dressing when its cooked outside the turkey. |
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| Our lovely hosts! |
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| Our turkey (breasts) cooking in the oven. |
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| The thrown together stuffing, which turned out surprising well. |
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| The boys are ready to eat! (L-R) Alessandro, Cody, and Derrick. Cody's another American working for Cameron at Derrick's plant and he arrived here about a month ago. |
I should have taken more Thanksgiving pictures. We ended up with turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce (we had brought a can back with us from when we were in Texas to get our visas), and pumpkin pie. Sarah actually made the pumpkin pie out of real pumpkin (no canned pumpkin in Italy!) which I found to be mind boggling.
Okay, onward to pictures of Lecco! They've put up these pretty lights all over town, which have been doing a good job of motivating me to get out and do some Christmas shopping =-)
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| Piazza XX Settembre |
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| Really cute restaurant decorated for the season! |
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| Why would Santa need reindeer when he's got his own dog sledding team? |
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| Viale Turati. By our house! |
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Derrick and Cody getting into the holiday season the only way they know how:
green Santa hats and Irish beer. |
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| Our Christmas Tree (albero di Natale)! |
And last but not least, the city of Lecco has brought us snow, snow and more snow. We have high hopes that we'll be able to do our first skiing of the season this weekend.
Next on my list of to do's: buy water proof shoes =-) . Merry Christmas everyone!
