Dinner and Wheel of Fortune

Dinner was about 45 minutes later. There was a big table, with a tablecloth at one end. On the wall in front of me was a giant TV with "Ruota della Fortuna," or Wheel of Fortune! I actually did pretty well guessing. It is similar to ours, except "Vanna" is young and more scantily dressed, "Pat" has his shirt open with lots of gold chains, and it lasts an hour.

Dinner started antipasto of olives, mushrooms, prosciutto, cheese, and grilled eggplant rolled around capers and maybe anchovies. That could have been enough for me... but no. Pasta was spaghetti and meatballs. I thought the Italians didn't do that! The main course was mashed potatoes with pea and ground meat, mixed and fried. So good! At this point, I was stuffed, but there was dessert--nuts and an apple. The offered and amaro that they made here from a fruit I never heard of.

During the dinner, I was alone except the father, who was watching TV behind me on the couch. The son, the same man who greeted me, served me the food. After the pasta, I met Maria, who was doing the cooking. After dinner, she came out and spoke with me. Again, nobody speaks English. She sat with me and told me that they grow almost all the food here. They press olive oil, make marmalades, have chickens, etc.

I was SO tired and finally said buonanotte. We agreed that breakfast would be at 9am. I fell asleep very quickly!Leia mais