Lost in Translation: Houses in the Mountain

Hello everyone!
I know it has been a while again since a blog post, but really nothing too interesting has been happening; this past week I have woken up every day and had something to do, mainly going to work out or walking around the town with Adri. But, on Wednesday Adriana asked me to go to Rome with her, so I did, I mean what else did I have to do. So around 9am Antonio picked us up and we headed to Rome (Adriana needed to go to the Italian Volleyball Federation building). On the way there we talked about several different things including our upcoming trip to Latina; we were planning on going Thursday, but we are waiting to get paid, and that hasn't happened yet, so we couldn't go. But every time we go to Rome we pass this outlet mall, IT IS HUGE! It is called Castelo di Romano and it is an outlet of designer stores, and I mean it is absolutely HUGE. On the way there, I pointed it out to Adri and told her that if we wanted to go, Seba (our coach) said he would take us one day. We got to the building, Adriana did what she needed to do, and we headed back, it was a very quick trip, most of it spent in the car, with me nodding off in the back seat. But on our way back we stopped at the outlet mall to have a look around. This is the season of huge sales, so every store has a ridiculous discount and all these awesome items. As we walked into one of the entrances we were like kids in a candy shop, eyes wide, mouth pretty much dropped to the floor. Adriana looked at me and said (in italian, mind you) we are not going to Latina when we get paid, we are coming back here. And we hadn't even seen the whole thing, we just went down two little walk ways, I think there were 3 more "piazzas" as they call them. IT IS AMAZING!

After that, we stopped at McDonald's for Adriana, because she loves it, and has been looking for one for a while. Then after that we headed back to Fondi; right down the street from Fondi, on the way out of town, there is a little town that is up in the mountain, and I mean, literally, houses built right into the side of the mountain, and every time we pass it I am just amazed on how beautiful it is, and apparently so was Adri; so Antonio took us up to the top of the town to look out and see it. The name of the mountain and the town is, Monte San Biagio. We drove up what was basically a one lane road, that snaked back and forth along the mountain, with buildings rising high next to us. Then we stopped at this little look out and you could see EVERYTHING, the lake, all the way to the sea, and the little towns below, and I will let the pictures I took do the rest of the explaining....