An Italian Adventure

Ready for some celebrating?  You know that birthday tune:

Happy Birthday to me........I'm in Italy.......in a town named Cittadella.....how lucky for me?

Well.....to be quite honest with you.....I wasn't feeling so lucky earlier in the day when I got so sick at the airport I didn't know if I'd board the plane.  Luckily I keep immodium in my purse, and it once again saved the day.

Or when I was randomly picked to go through a separate body scan search after I had cleared the first security line with flying colors.  That lead to another pat down and a set of interesting questions:

How old are you?  Today's my birthday.  I'm 55.  Where does that put me?  (The range was 51-70, so the birthday was a moot point.)

Where were you born?  In the United States.

Where do you live?  In the United States.

What religion would you consider yourself, if you have one? 

Really?  How does this tie into body scanning? 

Roman Catholic.

I must have passed the question test, because they finally let me through security.  

Also wan't feeling so lucky when what should have taken 2 1/2 hours of driving time ended up being nearly five.

But my spirits immediately rose the minute that I was greeted by my good friends, Morena and Dennis, who are in Cittadella themselves for a 3 week holiday.

When I learned of their plans, I couldn't resist asking Morena if Marty and I could tag along for a week so that she and I could spend our birthdays together.

I was already going to be in Scotland with Marty, and EasyJet offers some ridiculously low fares from Edinburgh to Milan........so what did she think?

Needless to say.....she was thrilled.  And the plans were set into motion.

Cittadella is such a lovely little town.  Since I hadn't had anything to eat all day, we stopped for a light bite at this lovely outdoor cafe in the center of the town.

Isn't that a beautiful view?

I didn't get many photos today, but I do plan to do so these next few days.  Here are a couple that I took while we walked around a bit.

It's like going back in time......with modern conveniences.

Our hotel is located inside the walls.....and actually, there is quite a bit of hub bub activity going on outside.  Apparently Friday night is Party night......or perhaps everyone is celebrating my birthday!  

Well, we did have a lovely dinner out with Morena's cousins 

and their extremely entertaining husbands, 

including mine. 

We don't speak Italian, but we still managed to have a wonderful time this evening at dinner. You would have thought that we were family!

It looks like we'll be having some real adventures over these next several days.  

Gallivanting looks better than ever this week!