Vicenza

Not a lot to talk about today.  We drove up to the Army base in Vicenza to get some of the paperwork out of the way, and that was about it.  Michael had a rough night last night, so we were up with him from about 12:30-3:30 am.  Around 1:30, Robbie just decided to take him for a walk so I could try and get some sleep.  They were out for about an hour and a half, then Robbie couldn't get back to sleep and was up the rest of the night.  It made for a long day today! But he got some neat pictures of the castle and cathedral all lit up at night:

We had to go to Vicenza today to take care of some stuff--we got our Italian drivers licenses (even though we don't have our car yet), made a trip to the cell phone store, the PX, Commissary, and some other general errands.  Thankfully it all went pretty smoothly (which never happens)!  Vicenza is about an hour and a half away, so we enjoyed the drive down the Autostrada looking at the Italian countryside. There are so many gorgeous churches with tall spires even in the smallest towns. We also passed another castle we should probably check out sometime.

The highlight of the drive was passing several fields full of thousands and thousands of sunflowers. I've never seen anything like it before.  We stopped on the way back to take some pictures:

Tomorrow is more house hunting, then in the evening some of the kids of Robbie's coworkers are having a recital, so we're going to go to that and meet some people.