I hadn’t planned on blogging again until after my Rome experience but I must share to you all about my day today.

First, after school I walked through downtown and got delicious Gelato. A cono piccolo with menta and nutella. If you haven’t assumed already, I’ll let you know that it was freaking delicious! So to start that put me in an excellent mood for the evening. After I finished my delectable gelato my host dad picked me up to go home, or so I thought…

We were heading up to the mountains behind our neighborhood. I asked my host dad what we were doing and he explained to me that we were going to see my Nonno’s(grandpa’s) farm. We arrived to the farm and greeted Nonno.

He then took me into the bottom floor of the farm house where I found his small winery! I always knew that my family made their own wine but I never knew how or where. Turns out that they do it five minutes away from home. Nonno explained to me the whole process of the wine making which is quite simple.

First all the harvested grapes are put into a big grinder and all the mushed grapes go into a wooden barrel. When the barrel is full there is a lid that with a crank pushes all the juice out of the barrel into a bucket. All the juice that goes into the bucket is put into bottles for a long time to ferment and become wine. I tried some of the grape juice before it’s fermented into wine and it’s absolutely delicious! Naturally very sweet and refreshing.

After viewing the wine process we walked through the farm to pick grapes and tomatoes. Which are all organic without pesticides or anything of the sort. The grapes are so yummy to snack on.

Since Nonno is old he isn’t able to take care of too many animals so the farm only has chickens now. Therefor he has plenty of eggs which we got to take home too.

Also, Nonno has a funny routine with the chickens where, when it is time for them to go into the chicken coop, he lightly taps the ground behind them with a stick and they all run to the chicken coop. It is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen, all the chickens are trained to know that when he does this, it’s time to go home.

To end my already wonderful day, as I walked through my neighborhood I found this precious guy.

What an excellent day. The fresh air, the fresh fruit, it all made me very happy. I wish you all a beautiful day too.