So today was a good relaxing day...kind of...it started with the usual taking Alessandro to school but Fabi and I went today instead of Giulio. When that happens we take the metro together and then I walk the rest of the way to work...Today I wanted to stop at the post office to mail some postcards which I normally get the stamps from the Tabacchi store, and a letter. So I wasn't sure if the stamps were the same or they did it by weight. So I went to the post office, but the line was long, so I went to the tabacchi next store, they didn't have any...so I went down a ways and to the tabachhi i usually get the stamps at...they didn't have any...so now i went back across the street to the post office...waited in line for about 10 minutes before reading the sign that says you can only make payments there...weird i know you pay your bills at the post office...i turned to the kind lady (thankfully) behind me and asked if I could get stamps there. She said no...but, in english, told me she would ask the lady behind the window if i could by them in back...all I saw was a kind of sketchy door with boxes piled up in the entry way...So I walked out of the post office and around the building only to find that there were two more windows back there to buy stamps, send packages, etc...Weird I know...so I waited in line again for about 15 minutes to get the stamps...thankfully I knew what i wanted so it didn't take long...Hurry up and wait. I finally got to work about 10:45....
Later on that day after I picked up Alessandro, we went for our daily walk and water adventure. Then it was off to the park. We were playing with a ball minding our own business when I turn to my left to see 2 children, both around 6 years old, standing by a light pole, out in the open, about 10 feet from us, with their pants around their ankles while their caretaker...grandma, nanny, whoever she was...saying be careful...don't get each other...they did their business and then went back to playing. WHAT!! Wait a minute!!! I didn't know what to do...besides wonder why. Why not in the bushes away from where people were playing, or going into the shop to use the bathroom...just going where no one is watching not where 3o people at the park have to see that...dogs maybe children not so much....
Anyway...that was that...we came home a few minutes later...Alessandro got a bath and I went for a run...This has become an almost daily routine for me...which I am enjoying, minus the potholes, the tree roots protruding from the sidewalk, the dog poo landmines, the trees in the sidewalk, and the people who don't really move to either side of the sidewalk so you can pass...other than that its been good. I thought I got lost the other day but just ran down all different kinds of streets until I ended up on the busy street that I recognized, at rush hour...everyone was staring at me...it was kind of weird. So if you don't mind running with the risk of breaking your ankle everyday or stepping in doggie dookie...its a good time!
See you all in 2 weeks!!!! Well...1 week and 6 days!!!!
Ciao a tutti!
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