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*side note* saturday was the groundbreaking for the Rome temple!! President Monson came out to preside. Pretty awesome day for the Italian saints. It'll be even more exciting to see as the building comes along, and when it is dedicated!

We went to Perugia to check out eurochocolate, an international chocolate exhibition.

Verdict is this:

chocolate is tasty

Costco is very generous with their samples whereas this exhibition was not

chocolate can be very very expensive

and Janene still strongly dislikes big crowds of people (especially when they don't have the American sense of personal space).

pericoloso = dangerous
goloso = glutton, or tempting, or greedy, all of which seem to fit

this poster was up in siena too, that's how we found out about the event.
ps, that piece of chocolate jane's feeding me is a dark chocolate with chilipeppers. tasty indeed, mmm, good chocolate, and then, whoa! burning! hehe...


it got more crowded than this around the actual chocolate booths. i didn't even dare stop to take my camera out sometimes.

found an overlook that let us breathe for a while. one, it was beautiful. two, we actually had room to breathe.


Jasen! i finally found the minor bars in italy! might have something to do with it being an international chocolate affair. milka and lindt were in on this shindig as well.


Jasen! doner kebab look alikes! yep, chocolate. they shaved it off and served it tucked in some kind of pastry, just like you'd serve the meat. fun, no?


they love their dogs, wouldn't want to leave them out of the festival.


even the clothing stores got in on the chocolate celebrating.

bacio - a kiss
- also a wonderful piece of chocolate
(that if you have never tried, you need to locate and taste)


awesome yellow-colored wall +stairs + arch + plant-covered staircase in the back


this little red guy got squished.


sorry you've got to put up with my random building pics. really, pictures don't do these buildings justice. it is fun that everywhere you walk, down these tight little streets, if you look up and around, you're rewarded with shutters, window-boxed flowers, fortresses, walls, lanterns...

neato squeato! thanks to Kelli who was paying enough attention to realize it was a face. anybody curious as to how this face would look at night? not sure how i feel about glowing eyes...


minimetro!! says so, right on the little metro car. i've never before seen them above ground! the nice parking garage man who pointed us in the direction of the train station and the center of the city actually mentioned the metro, only to say that taking the bus was a better idea.


i still love to see the cities like this.
perugia is actually in umbria, not toscana. i have to admit, from what i saw while we were driving, umbria's hills are prettier. lots of green :)


leaves, changing color! i love fall!


outside the city center, almost to the train station. what caught my eye here? there is only one window with laundry out to dry. just a little outside the 'norm' i've grown used to.


just remember, someone is always watching.