Today we visit Tuscany. More specifically, a town in the Tuscany region, near Pisa, called Lucca. Sue, Kaitlyn, Kelsie and I are taking a pizza and pasta making class from an Italian chef named Paolo Monti.
Troy and Steve both rented cars for the day and Hertz had our 2 matching Fiats ready for us when we walked off the ship!
The sky was gray (pretty much the first clouds we've seen) and it was raining by the time we reached Lucca. It was a PERFECT day to be inside cooking!!! The guys dropped us off and went to explore on their own. They visited a couple of olive oil factories and went hiking. They said the scenery was AMAZING! I'm very jealous about the olive oil factories AND that they picked loads of blackberries when they were hiking (my boys brought me some though...LOVE THAT!). But....I. GOT. TO. COOK!!!!
It was an all day affair, starting at 10 and finishing somewhere around 3. We made pizzas, foccacias, gnocchi (mmmm, my favorite), linguine, papardelle, spinach spaghetti, squid ink linguine and about 4 different sauces. While we cooked and at (and ate and ate and ate and ate) we were served a delicious Italian white wine. All the food was amazing! We got all the recipes so I'll be cooking up a storm when I get home (I'm missing cooking BIGTIME right about now). The class was one of my favorite trip activities so far.
Right as our class was ending, the clouds and rain disappeared and the hot sun came out. Nice timing, eh? On our drive back to the ship, we made a pit stop in Pisa to see the tower. Wow...I've seen photos, but man, it was way more crooked than I was expecting! Anyway, we were just there briefly for a photo op before heading back to the ship. The night was quiet. We were all tired and SO FULL from our huge lunch. Troy and I stayed up late to watch karaoke.
Tomorrow we arrive in Villefranche, France. Our trip is starting to wind down~~~
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