A quiet Day in Casacastalda--italy Part 2

After our exciting day in Gubbio, we decided to have a quiet day at 'home' and just hung around Casacastalda a little bit.  Since playgrounds are the highlight of the girls' life, we made them extra happy by taking them to the town playground.

Here is me looking extremely bad and being extremely irresponsible by baking in the Italian sun without sunscreen at the town playground. I paid for it later...but it was worth it to feel the sun:

Then we hit up the slightly gruesome pork stand in town (that's a roasted pig there in the background).  All the carnivores thoroughly enjoyed chowing down on pork at 10:30 am.

More scenes from the village:

 Millie and Jim needed a nap, so Evie and I decided to take a walk down to the neighboring village of Carbonesca.  It was beautiful!

 We stopped off in a cemetary on our way down.  Evie was  very interested in knowing more about the people in the pictures.

 There were some nice houses in Carbonesca and a nice bar in which to buy ice cream...and a nice looking bar tender who called Evie "bella" and then took off on his motorcycle.

 On the way back up the very steep hill, Evie didn't complain too much and picked a beautiful bouquet of wildflowers for us to have on our dinner table.

 And when we got back, the lovely Millie was awake and happy and the flower girls played in the on-site playground to their hearts content.

 

Unfortunately, our evening was fraught with drama when I heard some scuffling under our bed and found a rather large scorpion traversing the floor.  Much hopping around with a broom ensued and we finally swept it out into the night, but I wasn't able to settle down for a while after that.  This reaction from someone who grew up with Louisiana cockroaches!!  Luckily it was our only scorpion encounter, although we did see a snake eating a lizard, which was exciting.  The lizard escaped, but was, I think, mortally wounded. The snake slithered off and probably came back for him later.  Ahh...nature!