We've had crazy northeast-like weather for the past week.  The morning will be bright and warm then the black clouds come rolling and rumbling in and by evening there are terrific thunderstorms.  It's surprising here where the weather changes so slowly.  My diet took a nosedive Thursday dinner when we went to the Grandparents.  They are both having birthdays this weekend and we celebrated in the typical Italian way.  We made gluttons of ourselves.  Friday night a friend came to dinner packing three bottles of wine.  We felt obligated to drink them.  So this morning when I finally dragged myself out of bed I decided that the weekend was blown anyway so I went to a wine festival with two gals and snacked and sipped my way through the afternoon.  As I went without him and I felt a bit guilty, I bought GP a pass to the festival tomorrow, (where of course I will accompany him), and then we're having a BBQ here in the evening.  Diet recommences Monday.

Beautiful morning

friends

 The wine festival is to promote a regional grape, Freisa, grown all over the north.  Spring is bottling season so many producers have just begun to sell this year's wines.  They use these festivals as a form of advertising.  Along with wine producers, there were cheese makers and baked products, salami and hams, olive oils and all sorts of other goodies to try.  The festival was in Chieri, the town outside of which the school is located, so we ran into kids and parents and other teachers.  As I was driving, I was more observer than taster.  Tomorrow GP is driving!  xxoo me