La luna e piena. The moon is full.

It has been a while since our last post. So long, in fact, that we have since celebrated our third wedding anniversary, Teri's 29th birthday, traveled to Sardinia, welcomed friends from Portland to Athens on their honeymoon, and come "home" to Cleveland via New York. Now that we've settled in a little, we will try to update our long overdue blog. First things first: Italy.

In August, we were so lucky as to get to spend time on the Italian island of Sardinia. We were warned that Sardinia could be a "wild" place, but couldn't appreciate what that meant until we arrived at our little rental villa at the top of a hill. The dry, dusty roads leading up to the villa were just big enough to accommodate our little Fiat. We spent a splendid two weeks in this little apartment adjacent to our hosts, The Spellman's. From our hilltop we had views of the "Costa Smeralda," or Emerald Coast, and were privy to warm, dry winds that smelled of dried rosemary, sounds of horses, and even a wild pig! Here is a video of the road to our hilltop home, "Villa Cervo":

These videos took a REALLY long time to load, so we'll try to put up some still pictures of the trip in a second installment.