Italic Amazement

MUCH to my surprise, I find myself having a reasonably fun time here, despite the craziness (?) of my various collected relatives!

'Had a jolly good flight on Emirates, we had a stopover in Dubai which was a lot more fun than it sounds. Alfie and I chilled in the business / first class lounges - through the entirity of our genius. We drank FREE Veuve Clicquet champagne and bitched about how hard it was to be rich... much fun. We also took a ton of photos.

After this fun piece of debauchery, mon frere and I headed to the gate where we were MEANT to be meeting my mother, unfortunately she only takes it upon herself to arrive an hour late and more than slightly drunk - we were not impressed to say the least. After this slight crisis, we boarded the plane - I didn't have to sit next to the mother, hooray! I watched Alice In Wonderland twice, what a delightful Disney movie! I also slept in a VERY uncomfortable position, curled up practically in a ball with my back pressed against the spiky armrest :(. We got off the plane at around 1:00 in the afternoon Italian time and Alex and I went to get the luggage while my mother hurriedly attempted to make herself look ten years younger - pfft, like THAT'S going to happen - which made her late YET AGAIN by twenty minutes, Alfie and I have decided to give her fake meeting times from now onwards.

After this slight palava, We left the arrivals area to be greeted by my two grandparents, who look scarily the same as three years ago. My grandmother's first comment to my mother was " well you've sure put on weight" LOLOLOL I love my grandmother!

We then vavavoomed off to Civitavecchia (the nearest thing to civilisation around our bumfuck town) for some AMAZING pizzza (prociuotto con funghi et mozzarella for me, quattro formaggi for my brother - and some spaghetti a la vingole too!). By the time we got home - around 4:00 - we were SO tired, Alfie and I headed to bed immediatemente, and we slept for 15 freaking hours, this place SURE drains you maaayn.

We then woke up at around 11 - not without my brother waking me up about twelve times in the night to complain he was tired and me giving some disgruntled response before kicking him. After this particularly tiresome episode, we went to go chill with the cousines which are crazy cute if a little wearing at times. They ADORE Alfie. The younger one, Leonora keeps on announcing to us that "I don't like you, I like Alfie" which is more than slightly disconcerting. We headed to Civitavecchia again in order to CZECH out the market (Hey, what a comedian I am) but pretty much to no joy. We bought a lot of pizza bianco, olives etc etc which was yummy.

Then we headed to Fiumiccino with my eldest aunt (Arabella) to do the shopping and Alfie and I gorged ourselves on 6 euros worth of Lindt chocolate... yum! We then went to the GIANT HUGE NORMOUS supermarket where Alf and I stalked our mother for about an hour and laughed at what a fat bitch she was!





MORE LATER. GOT TO OPEN MY STOCKING!