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Well, I have learned that everything takes a lot longer in Italy.  I feel like I have signed and had my picture taken for about 12 ID's.  We were unable to leave our hotel until they were given to us.  Then I had to get an Italian driver's license but passing a written test.  It was pretty easy if you studied the road signs.  Those are a bit confusing and I am still getting used to them.  I always think I am driving on a one-way or on the wrong side of the road or something.  So far, so good though.  The process of getting the car was an ordeal.  Luckily, Kyle handled all of that.  We picked out our car, put a down payment on it, had to get insurance, get it registered, go back to the insurance company to show temporary registration, got it officially insured, went back to get it officially registered then take all of this to the dealership, then we got to take our car home.  It's been the same with getting our house.  Meeting after meeting, signing after signing.  It's a process, but oh well.  We're learning.
I've continued to drive around a lot, getting lost.  I am very grateful for our GPS.  We went through Nove, which is famous for its ceramics, then into Marostica.  There is an old castle situated on a mountain with a stone wall on both sides on the mountain.  Every even year a live chess tournament is held in the square.  It's a really pretty town.  I am just finishing a Cioccolata, hot chocolate, as I write, which happens to be more like drinking chocolate.  You have to add your own sugar because it is not very sweet.
Some things I find interesting here are:  towel warmers. . . great, our TV does not turn down below 15. . .  not so great, no one has carpet which I don't mind, especially because our house will have heated floors.  I'll keep thinking of more things.  The food really is great here.  The pasta is so fresh which everyone kept telling me, but I had no idea how fresh pasta tasted.  Now I do.  So much better.  Everything is fresher, even the Burger King on post has a fresher taste to their hamburgers.  Well, I will post more when we get our house, with pictures if I can figure out how.