the past & the future...

this is another shot from the other day in lago maggiore.

it sounds like many others who didn't tour it 3 days ago are going to go tomorrow (friday).

i am heading off in a similar direction....i will take an all day trip with ian....he is ginna's husband (and ginna is the vielle player in Rose)

ian and i are heading on this excursion ( http://www.lagomaggioreexpress.com/Inglese/index.html )

so a glorified version of tuesday's trip but with a new stamp in my pass-a-port to switzerland ~

due to the ensemble's schedule of singing every night, no one else can join ian and i, so that is the bummer of the deal, but i am looking forward to a beautiful ride through the alps and a gorgeous ferry ride back down lago maggiore. let's hope it doesn't rain much....(no idea what the forecast is. it is what it is)

other news of late:
*spent 2 hours today shamelessly shopping for couture. something i never in a kazillion years thought i would do. i mean i do consider myself a girly-girl but i don't have the budget for spendy clothes. (and i'm just as quick to get down and dirty in the mud of the outdoors...)

heard there was a dolce & gabbana factory store near here. there is. *completely* unmarked. no sign. nothing. in da hood actually. but the inside of the store is beautiful, and yes, bought a pair of jeans. for about double what i'd pay at the Gap or elsewhere, but i did it as one splurge. and i have to say they are hot...(even if i never would refer to my own self this way; the JEANS are hot). so that was my girly moment of the trip....(was wishing my fashion lovin' friends were here with me!)

*it is thundering away again as i type. but it *has* been beautiful for the past 3 days so we were due for some rain.

*windowblinds in europe overall ROCK. if you want to nap (one of the big perks of vacation if one is not out running or touring around) you can and the entire window becomes covered in these roller shade things that admittedly aren't pretty to look at from the outside but are stellar for good dreaming environments within.

*i (and the rest of the group here) are 10000% sick and tired of eating pasta. if anyone suggests we hit any kind of italian resteraunt within 3 weeks of me coming home i will so pretend i can't hear what you are saying. lalalalalalalalalalalalalala....

*i am not, however, sick of wine. :)

*i am seriously starved for some really good eggs & bacon. breakfast here consists of the following choices: cocoa krispies, corn flakes, rolls, butter, jam, croissants stuff with jelly & 3 canned fruits (pineapple, prunes or peaches). that's. it. oh, and yes, the all important coffee. i am in italy, i will eat what they tell me too, but MAN i miss bacon & eggs and waffles and the rest of the breakfast kingdom that is missing here.

*for my coach and runner girls, i am totally back on track for training. 9 miles in the past 2 days. no running friday, but will not forget my 6-7 mile LSD on the weekend. my left hip flexor hurts. no idea what i did. i want it to feel better.....any suggestions (besides advil)? ally, i don't have stumpy with me to help :( eeegads, one flippin week til i leave for duluth.

*travel home tues from milan, work some on wednesday & thursday, drive to duluth on friday, run Grandma's on saturday. that is quite a week coming up. the time has flown by but in all honesty, it's getting to be time to be back with my furry critters and to the piles o work and projects a-waitin for me. time for wine...peace and love, ~jd