Sorry for the sparcity of updates; we've been just doing day to day stuff, and that's not a lot of fun to read (or write about). We did take a trip over settimana bianca though. What's that? Perhaps I should back up a bit...
In addition to bunches of other strange customs over here, a lot of Italians take a week off in February to go skiing. The schools evidently got tired of seeing so many empty desks for that week in February, so they declared it an official school vacation. I wasn't able to find any additional information on this holiday online (that wasn't in Italian), so you'll either just have to take my word for it, or do your own research on the history of it. Anyway, for settimana bianca this year, we loaded up the kids and drove to Venice.
