Relative Italians, Cars, and Clue
Ben and I spent some of Friday evening and all day Saturday cleaning the house. I did a pretty good job in the kitchen/dining room/living room and Ben worked some serious magic in the dungeon, I mean family room, where our big TV and his computer workspace live. I also put a couple posters/artwork in frames (didn't hang anything yet) and hung some smaller things on the wall in the guest bathroom and hung a corkboard in my office.
I prepared a smorgasbord of sandwich fixins for dinner, for which my aunt Regina and uncle Alex joined us when they finally arrived from Minnesota. They're staying with us for a couple days, then with some other friends around Utah, and then flying to Italy where they'll be living for the next few-to-several years to be with my uncle's family.
Yes, my uncle is Italian and made some fantastic aleo alio pasta for dinner yesterday. My dad came down for dinner with Prosciutto ham, pepperocinis and some Asiago cheese... so it was quite a delicious meal and the company was nice, too. Alex is also a big racing fan... not of NASCAR. Of Ferrari. And Ferrari won the championship yesterday, which made him clap his hands and do a cute, unexpected dance when he checked the score online (since we don't get the Speed Channel on which it was broadcast). I couldn't believe, after that, that he hadn't seen the Pixar movie "Cars," so we watched that together after dinner.
Luigi and Guido, the little Italian cars from Radiator Springs, were even funnier given the earlier hoopla scene Alex had made about Ferrari. I also hadn't realized how much Italian was spoken in the movie! Alex and Regina both enjoyed it. Apparently there will be partying in Italy for a month because Ferrari won the race. W007, I guess?
We had dinner early, around 5:30, so there was still time after the movie to play the Simpsons version of Clue, which I haven't played for several years. It was fun, and I won the first round pretty quickly because I guessed the solution by chance. Then I won the second game through hard-nosed detective work. Alex and Ben were both already out of the game because they both guessed wrong before they had all the evidence. Silly boys.
I'm looking forward to pasta in a butter pea sauce for dinner this evening. Yummy food makes giving up my Saturday to cleaning a little easier to handle.
