Four Points Bolzano

... of storage space! Compared to my lovely room in the dungeons of Uhall last year, this room seems like paradise. It even has a private washroom, and mine is almost as big as the spacious room itself! Unfortunately, the shower doesn't have a door and is level with the bathroom floor, meaning my bathroom floods whenever I shower. This is not typical, so I wonder if I had come earlier if I would have got a better room? Also, my room fronts on to a noisy road with bars all around. It is ...

At 2:48pm the train arrived in Bolzano/Bozen as indicated. Northern Italy is quite hilly with some great landscape for one's viewing enjoyment. I was quite surprised by the city of Bolzano. The very first thing I did was purchase a SuperEnalotto ticket! 146.9 million euros, who could say no? My next train was not until 4:32pm, I went out to have a look at this city. This city is close to Germany and has a huge German influence. That is ...

... just before halftime. I had prepared well, added a few new plays, formations, and shifts to our offensive repertoire and I felt confident that we were going to put it on the Lions.

In warm ups I felt pretty good but also felt the nerves. I could only imagine what it was like for NFL guys during the playoffs and the pressure they must feel. I have had a good season to this point but I’ll just be another good player in Bolzano lore if I can ...

... watching a press conference with Meyer before their SEC Championship game with Alabama. Florida’s star receiver Percy Harvin was out with a badly sprained ankle. Meyer said that it was unknown if he would be ready for the game, but he went on to speak about how hard Harvin was working to try and be ready (4-5 hours a day of therapy on his ankle) and that every time he saw Meyer, Harvin reminded him that the last couple years, he had monster games against ...

... I had wanted to use my touchdown celebration all seasonbut never had found the right time. This felt like the best chance so I ran to the mural, started dipping mybrush in an imaginary paint can and started repainting the mural for a fewseconds.  No flag, you got to lovepro football.

 

In the fourth quarter I hit Piva on a deep corner for 40yards and then a comeback for about 15 and a touchdown to round out arescoring.  Piva was excited becausehe needed 5 catches to break ...

... here then I mention the names so you will be sure to put them on your list.
What a breathtaking place .... and I'm from Canada! The mountains are rough slices of rock jutting straight up to heaven. In many ways I am reminded of Patagonia. The light plays on the rock as the day gives way to night. From White to gold to red. Beautiful!!
At the end of our three days we had done a few hikes and taken hundreds of pictures ...

... for a bit then went to bed.

 

Tuesday 26th

 

In the morning when I woke up, I already had two long textmessages about last night, how good of a time she had, how much she thought ofme, how she hoped I wasn't board because of her English (she speaks goodEnglish, but refuses to think so), and wanted to inform me that whenever Iwould like to go out again we would. I wrote her back saying I had a good time and left it at that.

 

Less is more. And ...

... asking him to borrow a euro so I could catch the bus back home.  I got home and slept for the large majority of Monday afternoon.   I wish I had the foresight of my Mother, but I don't.  Before Lauren and Mike came out, I had a solid social network of Italians put together and my days out here in Bolzano were fairly full of various social engagements.  That network fell apart however as my American visitors came out and we roamed Italy together.  I don't want to give the ...

... a couple cold ones for him when he got off the plane and here is why. Tisma found a flight for Mike that went from Brisbane to Singapore, Singapore to Dubai, and Dubai to Milano. Three 7-hour flights back to back to back. On the way into LD at 6:15 (yes I was running late) Tisma called me and I made the mistake of answering. He ripped into me for not being on the road and yelled for a minute about how I needed to get to the airport to pick up Mike, whose ...