Lost in translation...

Sorry guys! Lately I have been sooooo busy at work that I had to neglect the blog and I couldn't translate anything of the last few posts written by Ely. She was always in a hurry and didn't have time to translate too...(or too lazy to do it! hehehe). We definetely got LOST IN TRANSLATION this time!!! But here is a little recap of these last few posts.

X-MAS:
This is one of our favourite part of the year! This is our first Christmas in the new house. Last Christmas the house was ready, but we only had the sofa and the Christmas tree!!! We weren't living in because we hadn't bought forniture yet. So we can consider this one as the first Christmas in our house. And it's exciting!!! We have started decorating the house at the beginning of December. We have a little but glam x-mas tree, my aunt Miriam made us a fantastic table decoration (you can see the photo in the previous posts!) and we have decided to collect decorations that represent a snowman...we now we have a table runner with snowmen, a cookie jar, a chocolate snowman and last but not least an Advent calendar. It has the shape of a snowman, but the body is made with several little drawers, one for every day of the month until Christmas. In every one we have put chocolate candies and Ely wrote me a message for every day! How sweet, isn't she???
We also wanted to put lights outside, but we don't have plugs on the balcony, so we gave up for this year.
These week-end we started to make Christmas shopping. On Friday afternoon we went to a big store here in Trento where we found most of the gifts for our families and friends. Then on Sunday we went to the typical annual St. Lucy's fair. It's a big tradition here and we usually go to the fair every year. The things they sell are more or less always the same every year. We usually buy candied peanuts and walk around the stalls...this year we found that very nice table runner with snowmen on it. My mum joined us at the fair. She loves it. She also bought some little things even though lately prices are quite unreasonable. All the shop in the city centre were open and we also could buy some other little gifts. We have quite a lot of packages under our little Christmas tree!!! I only have one gift for me under the tree :( ! I hope Santa will bring some other ones!!! I have been so good this year!!! I SWEAR!!!!!!! (^-^)


LOST:
We are "Lost" addicted. We have just finished to see the 3rd season here in Italy. Finally we have started to understand something, but who knows? At the end something is understandable, but most of the facts are still in the fog! In my opinion, the show is really well done. You are always on the edge, waiting for the next step of the story, the next unpredictable event...and you never stop wondering what's next, what's the meaning of all this and so on! No clues to answer to all these questions now. We just have to wait patiently season 4 in fall 2008. Can't wait!!!!!
For the season 3 finale, we have planned a "Lost party" at Giorgia's house. Also our's friend Valeria joined us. Ely prepared pancakes with apple (you can see the pic in the previous post!) and it definetely was a nice evening. We never stopped making conjectures about interpretations of everything...It was a fun night in good company! ;)

SOME MORE NEW FORNITURE:
Last Saturday we went again to Ikea to buy a closet for the basement (where to put all those clothing that we use less or seasonal stuff, like sky clothing or summer shoes, but also blankets and all that's not necessary at the moment!) and a new chest of drawers for the bedroom. As always, we found some other nice things to complete our house, like a big mirror always for the bedroom and some candles.
Once back home, we found out that the mirror was sktretched in 3 different points and we didn't notice it in the shop, because it was in a cellophane. We are quite disappointed, and we intend to return it to the shop and get a new one in perfect conditions. The problem is that the mirror is big and the shop where to return it is in Brescia!!! :( :( :( :(
Here is the final result of the our bedroom with the new forniture!



CINEMA:
This X-mas there are some nice new movies in theaters...Ely and I have watched some interesting trailers and read some reviews both on local and international magazines and we decided to go to see "Enchanted" and "The Golden Compass". From our choice you can tell we like the fantasy thing. True, but not only. In my opinion for Christmas it's nice to go to cinema and warch a fantasy movie and dream...

What I miss the most of my childhood at Christmas is that magical feeling when I still believed in Santa. I remember all the times I was helped to write the letter with the wish list of the gifts. On Christmas day I was the first one to get up and find all the gifts. Every time I was breathless in front of them. And I was playing in my pijama for the whole morning. It was all a matter of great expectations and big surprises to find out what Santa brought. ;) Unforgettable!!!

Merry Christmas, my friends! ;)
-Mario