On tap for today is a cooking class, this should really be interesting. Before we do that Robyn wanted to go to Juliette's house and take a picture of the balcony. Waiting until this morning was one of the smarter things we have done on this trip, the place was nearly empty. The balcony is nothing special, in fact when I got up to the description of the balcony I learned it was made from an old sarcophagus, talk about irony. There is a museum in the house about life in Verona in the 15th century when the play was supposed to take place. We had already read it was not worth the 6 Euros to go into the house/museum. There is also a statue of Juliette in the courtyard, some idiot years ago said it was good luck to rub her breasts so her boobs are very shiny.

After that was over with we went on to the meeting spot for our class which was near the Roman gate to the city.

We meet our teacher, Enrique, who is also a local chef. There was another couple from New Jersey and a woman from Saskatchewan, Canada. The class was held in the kitchen of a restaurant. They had all the supplies laid out for us and a small cookbook of basic Italian recipes. According to Enrique we would be learning how to make Tiramisu, fresh pasta, a tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes, and bruschetta. We started with the Tiramisu since it needed to sit in the refrigerator for at least two hours. Then we had some wine. Made the pasta, more wine. Cut up tomatoes for the bruschetta and sauce and had more wine. Made and ate the bruschetta, more wine. Made the sauce and cooked the pasta, more wine. Finally ate the pasta and the Tiramisu but had run out of wine. Man do Italians know how to cook. Actually everything turned out pretty good, and we only had small amounts of wine.

After we finished with the class Robyn wanted to go to the other cathedral near our hotel the Santa Maria Martricolare also known as the Duomo. This cathedral was completed in 1187 on the site of an earlier cathedral that had been destroyed in an earthquake in 1117. It was beautiful inside but looked like every other cathedral.

Tomorrow is our 36th anniversary, we are taking the train to Venice to spend the day. We will see how that goes.