July 4th! Kurt and Erica's good bye, Lago di Como

This day, we went to try and see our friend, George Clooney, on Lago di Como. Too bad he wasn't there. We started off at a town who had the unfortunate name of Cernobbio. If reading in English, it wouldn't be as bad, but in Italian, the "ce" is pronounced as a "che". I'm sure when they named this, they didn't know the Chernobyl disaster would have happened. Good thing there's no nuclear power plants here.

Lago di Como is essentially a valley between two mountains which collected a lot of runoff water and became a lake. The lake is shaped like a man. They have a saying that Como is at the man's left food, Lecco is the man's right foot, I forgot what the head was, and Bellagio is at the man's balls. The three famous cities on Lago Di Como are Menaggio, Bellagio and Varenna. We only got to visit Menaggio this time, but it was beautiful. The drive was the best part. On the way, there were mansions which could probably fit multiple families and a castle which was in the side of the mountain. You find the most random things in Italy...

After we went to Lago di Como, we went to Kurt and Erica's good bye party/4th of July party. They had burgers and brauts! It was delicious. I miss good ole American food. I got a bit ambitious and wanted to make these really cute cupcake/brownie "hamburgers" and sugar cookie "french fries". Unfortunately, the oven I have here is more like a toaster oven, so the cupcakes turned out weird and half the sugar cookies were burnt. Instead, I made red white and blue frosting and made patriotic cupcakes and cookies. The brownies turned out ok. I miss my cooking stuff at home... and a real oven.

Kurt and Erica's was a lot of fun. We drank through the night. I had to drive the drunk boys home, so I didn't end up partaking in the shots they had... probably for the better. We also had the chance to meet Tim Stacy's daughter, Becca. This girl was nuts. I feel like took a wrong turn somewhere in college. It was a good thing all the boys were good and her father didn't think anything of it.