June 4th, 2009
Today was Tiziana’s 25th Birthday! Unfortunately, this meant nothing special for any of us since we all had to go out and do surveys, even Tiziana. In fact, Daniella, Tiziana, and I were responsible for doing about four surveys in the northern part of the park. The surveys were not too difficult, and we ended up getting done around 1pm which was nice. This allowed us to visit the Arab lady’s shop for a cheeseburger which I was extremely excited about!
That afternoon, we all hung out around the house for awhile. Around 4pm Tiziana and I walked to the market in order to get stuff for dinner but we were unsuccessful since supposedly on Thursday’s the shops in Villetta Barrea close early for some unknown reason. Frustrated, we returned home and tried to figure out how we were going to locate a birthday cake for Tiziana. Luckily, Daniela and others living in the house are friends with a baker in Pescasseroli and she called him up to see if his shop was still open. It was, so Tiziana and I drove to Pescasseroli to pick up a fruit of the forest tart for her birthday!
That night Davide and Lorenza accompanied us for dinner. Faustio made pasta with ham and tomato sauce for dinner. It was really good since he used some type of pasta I have never seen before in the US which is basically a thick version of spaghetti that has a hole in the middle. The best part of the meal, however, was getting to taste Tiziana’s delicious birthday tart. It is very rare that we have something for desert so it was a particularly special treat!
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