Happy 4th of July!!!
Had a cookout yesturday at Lorna and Forrest's neighbors house. Great time. Sounds sad to say, but it was nice to have good old American food, hot dogs, hamburgers and potatoe salad. Doug tried to make homeade icecream, but it wouldn't freeze. It tasted good though. Reminded me of home when we used to handcrank homeade icecream. Who has the icecream maker? We should make some Old Home Day. Ill try to find the Junket. Anyway, my favorite part and don't laugh... was the good old American Beer. Sad but true there's nothing like a cold Miller Light on the 4th of July. Then we loaded up the car and went down to watch the fireworks. So pretty. Thank you Aviano Air Force Base for letting us celebrate the 4th, even in Italy.

Today we hung out and relaxed, then attempted to ride bikes to a winery, but couldn't find it. Oh well got my workout in and watched fightjets take off and land. Tomorrow we head to Florence.
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Later Lorna and Forrest took us to the winery. The guy was really nice and was from the states but married into an Italian family. He let us taste anything and everything. It was so good. I splurged and shipped a case home. 12 wines for 40 euros, shipping 190 euros. Seriously the wine was so cheap, shipping sucked. (Lauren and Jackie - I found the best wine for you and bought you each a bottle) We wanted to bring wine with us for our trip so we decided to buy a box wine (yes he does sell his wine in boxes) and take the bag out of the box. The whole 11 pound baby is now the top part of my pack. 5 Liters. So worth it.

In Florence now, about to head down to dinner. The Hostel does an 8 euro all you can eat and they have a dj and a bar.