i realize i've been slacking on the legitimate updates about life over here and what i've been doing - so here are some brief, unorganized updates....
two weeks ago, we went to the zoefood opening. one of the new teachers that i work with, R, has family here in trieste and they opened the CUTEST little bar/cafe/restaurant ("risto-bar" if you will) and we were all invited to their grand opening! pretty much everyone from school was there and we (or maybe just I?) drank too much prosecco, which is never a bad thing, even when you have school the next day.
the zoe opening was the beginning to a pretty spectacular weekend -- convenient that it was the weekend after the first week of school; the bar for subsequent weekends has been set pretty high.
after the zoe opening on thursday, friday we had out fantasy football draft gathering-turned-party with most of my coworkers. this was our second failed attempt at successfully registering and drafting our teams (there are many females involved in our league....) so we just drank lots of wine (naturally) and went out as a super big group (which usually isn't my favorite thing) still in our school clothes with all of our bags. i have been told that this can happen from time to time, going out straight from school and accidentally not getting home until 4am.
the weather was gorgeous all weekend so after a relaxing day on saturday (including lunch at zoe, our new favorite spot), we went hiking on sunday in val rosandra! val rosandra is a big national park that's about 20 minutes outside of the city. the park starts in italy but parts of it extend into slovenia (which is aewsome) and it was gorgeous (see below). did i mention that it's a 20 minute bus ride to get there? 
and now, this past weekend. the weather last wednesday THROUGH sunday was absolutely horrific. insane wind (pre-bora?) and floods. i mean, so much rain. terrible. thank goodness i got friends seasons 3 and 8 in the mail on wednesday from my mom (!) so we had something to occupy us for most of the day saturday.
then saturday evening, we headed up to udine (a town who's name, all of my automatic spell-checkers want to change into "urine") which is about an hour north of trieste for the fruili-doc festival! the fruili-doc is a festival of "all things this region" including, but not limited to, food, drink, and handmade things.
below are pictures!
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| still a little dreary, but the center of udine is adorable! |
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| crepes! |
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| ver and her crepe (and bunny ears)! |
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| gnocchi di zucca (pumpkin) - delicious! |
sunday: the weather cleared and was gorgeous! went to zoe for brunch (i told you it was our favorite place) and came home to find our own sasha-homemaker doing this:
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| homemade pasta?! yes, please!! |
and now it's (almost) friday again. plans are being made for drinks at zoe and more heavy rain -- instead of friends marathons this weekend i'm planning to read, A LOT.
cheers! xx
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