BIG Saturday

I just have time for a quick post, but I thought you'd like to know that WE HAVE PLANS! Typical Saturdays include sleeping in, Ryan's music, facebook, coffee, then venturing out to walk around the city or pick up some groceries. Not this time... take a look at our packed schedule and tell me you're not jealous.

11:00 - 1:00 - Ryan goes bike riding with a neighbor. The neighbor is an ex-professional athlete, but recently hurt his knee skiing, so Ryan is confident he will keep up this time with no problems.

1:30 - 4:30 - grocery shopping in Italy with other neighbors. Elsa is French but speaks very good English and her husband is actually American! I've been hanging out with her and her baby (Leoni) the last couple of days. She is very Parisian... carefree, beautiful, and ultra-cool. She introduced me to a face cream that costs $545 (for the smallest amount possible) and showed me the most amazing purse she received as a Christmas present. I feel as if I'm always on the verge of looking square, polite, and basically not-cool around her. But, she seems to like me (either that or she's incredibly bored in the apartment by herself during the day). Her and her husband have a car, and offered to take us to an Italian grocery store they go to every Saturday. A lot of people do that here... it's cheaper, has everything, and you can stock up for the week (as opposed to going daily, like we do).

7:00 on - dinner with a guy from Ryan's office and his girlfriend. This never happens - usually people from Ryan's office don't socialize after hours, and most of them go to homes outside of Lugano for weekend fun. So, this is extra special. I'm hoping we impress this guy, enough that he'll ask us out again.

Here's a picture of Ryan before he left. Can you tell we're excited? I whipped out the camera and he made no protest about the picture (just that I shouldn't get the light behind him because he would appear too dark).