June 6th, 2009
Today I went out with Faustio to investigate two survey points in the northern part of the park which ended up being very close to the locations Giovanna and I visited on the 29th of May. It was an easy day considering the two points were not more than 800m away from where we parked the car. We ended up finding one bedding site which is always rewarding.
That afternoon, we went back into Pescasseroli to find the ingredients for me to make almond ricotta cheese cookies. It turns out that in Pescasseroli you can only buy 2ml viles of almond extract at a time (5ml= teaspoon) which required me to do some major math in the market. Anyone reading this blog probably knows about my nonexistent math ability so after returning home to Viletta Barrea I found out that I needed 3 more packages of extract as well as one more package of powdered sugar. Luckily, Faustio and Daniela were having to head back towards Pescasseroli later that afternoon and offered to pick me up my missing ingredients. Unfortunately, the market in Villetta Barrea was all out of ricotta cheese so I was unable to make my cookies. For dinner we ended up having spaghetti with ham in a cheese sauce. It was tasty.
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