Buongiorno Antoinette,
Like the eloquent Bill Murray said, "We're Americans, with a capital 'A'! You know what that means? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world...We're mutts!" And the good thing about that is we get to partake in every cultures wine drinking festivities. We get to be Micky on St Patrick's Day, Julio on Cinco de Mayo, Pierre on Bastille Day, and Augustus Gloop for Oktoberfest because he takes a huge bite out of September and October, ach der lieber!!! But what about the Italians? It's time we got our Giuseppi on and what better way than to celebrate Italy than on what they accidentally did well...exploration! It was that wrong turn at Albuquerque! Time to turn Columbus Day into exploring Italian wine day. And unlike Marco and Christopher, it's more fun getting lost in a bottle of chianti than on the Atlantic or in the Gobi desert. But our debt is great and the Italians united the world with food and wine. They brought back pasta from China, tomatoes from the new world and now we can have spaghetti with our nebbiolo. Italy wouldn't be Italy and America wouldn't have the Sopranos, the Empire State Building, or Frank Sinatra without Italian exploration. We'd also have a large population of natives who wouldn't know what to call themselves, leading to a bunch of nameless sports teams. So make this Columbus Day weekend one to remember. Jump in your Nina, Pinta, or Santa Maria and head to your local wine shop to stock up on plenty of your favorite Italian grape (leave the milk in the cooler for those hurricane Matthew fanatics), batten down the hatches, and serve up al dente pasta, parmigiana and Barolo all weekend long. Don't worry about the weather, it's October, too cool to spend all that time in the pool looking for Marco ...
Polo!
P.S. Is anybody else wondering what will end up being more valuable...the bling stolen from KK, or the value of the photos, snaps, and texts lifted from her stolen phones?
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