Still -48 hours

Seems like the weather is not helping me leave, so I still have 48 hours to go. My flight got canceled and it seems like a day later I will be able to leave.
Let's cross our fingers.
Frankfurt is filled with fog and I am guessing lots of snow.
I got a new ticket for the 2nd after I called the American offices of Lufthansa because the ones in Europe are not 24 hours.
Even if the American offices are probably really in India. =)

-48 hours

In 48 hours I will be on my way back to the States!! I'm excited! Even if I was just there only 3 months ago, I'm very excited to be back home. I think the cold weather has made want to go to a warmer place even if it's a bit warmer now.
Today I prepared a lot of things that I need to bring with me on my trip. I finished with my list of things to do. I am so happy that I got everything done. I'm ready to sleep on the plane, watch movies and relax after today.

Graduation gift check

We went around Brescia looking for my brother's graduation gift. I think we found it. Tomorrow Riccardo will go buy it. I hope that my brother likes it.

I am excited for him because he was able to find a job as a teacher in the middle of the semester. =)

Can't wait to see him!...Just a couple of days.

10K and rewarded with cinghiale dinner

We went for a run. 10K and I think it was my fastest time to finish it.
We used to do it very often last year but we got tired of it and we stopped doing this route.
It was a wonderful day to run! It was such a sunny day!!! At least for the morning.
We had lunch and went to a mall in Desenzano (by the lake). We heard they were having very good sales bit once we got there we realized that the sales were not as good as we expected.
It started raining when we were driving back home.

In the late afternoon we went to a bar to watch Milan play of course and they won. We usually go to a bar otherwise we would pay to watch each game! Sports in Italy work like boxing in the US. You pay per view, every now and then, you can watch one game but i have never seen Milan play at home.
What I like when I go out to watch, or better, the best part of knowing we are going to watch soccer or better known as calcio, is having a pirlo. It's a spritz, it's a mix of wine, Aperol, and water with gas.

We went to the dinner that I ha told you in my previous post and it started snowing while we were eating!! In this place, I'm sure it kept snowing but where we live it was raining when we got home.

Today was the first night to go under 0°C, -1°C (32°F) to be exact. This morning cars had ice on the windshields and the grass had bits of ice over it. About 6:45am when I woke up it was 3°C and by about 8:30am it was almost 5°C.
I still went for my run about 3pm.  I think it's usually the warmest part of the day. It was a good run, despite the fact that for the first 15 minutes my hands were frozen, they started warming up and then again frozen. Finally, when I got home, I waited a bit for my hands to warm up. Otherwise, my hands feel like there's ants inside them. It's not the best feeling in the world.
In the evening, Riccardo and I went to have pizza at the best pizzeria in Brescia.
This weekend we will have dinner in a hole in the wall.  It's a small restaurant in a very little town. We went to this restaurant last year for Halloween. We had wild boar which is obviously is a wild animal that lives in the mountains. Resembles a pig's face, but full of short long hair and a lot bigger in size.


Cinghiale in the snow.

I am very excited!! It's really good!

Cold enough for gloves!!

Today was the first day that decided to wear gloves. I just couldn't handle it anymore. My hands are usually cold and cold weather doesn't help much. It was cold during the day too. We are still above zero but the temperature doesn't increase much during the day even if it's sunny outside. It seems actually that the more sunny it is here, the colder it is.
It also happened when I lived in Detroit.
So today back in Texas it was 27 degrees!! I can't wait to get some warm weather.  Even if warm to me at this point is 10°C (50°F). I will be happy with 20° (68°F).

Maniva

So today was hard to get up. Last night I went to bed late and had to get up early. I took the bus to go downtown and then I took a moment to look around and realized that the mountain Maniva was full of snow!! I wrote something about mountains last month but now the snow has increased for sure!! When I saw the mountain I was amazed. I think mountains get so beautiful with snow. It gives you a sense of relaxation and calmness. You can get some R&R in a house in the middle of the Alps.
I can understand why there's so much snow, when it rains here at 250 meters above sea level; it snows at over 1500 meters above sea level.

Today something cool happened. I wanted to run another 10K to keep training so my brother and I can go for a run while I am home. After I finished Lance Armstrong said that I had completed another 250 miles with my Nike + equipment. Therefore I'm in the third section of the Nike + chart.
To get to the next one I have another 150 miles to run.
I believe that if you run two or three tines a week only to exercise, it's quite difficult to move from one level to another. I'm sure that if I would have run more over the summer I would be father but I decided to take up cycling more serious. I think that it's important to change it up a bit every now and then.
Anyway, the cold weather expected this week it would be impossible to keep riding a bike. We don't usually go cycling when there rain but since last weekend in my opinion it is physically impossible to go!! It is just too cold! You have to wear so many layers of clothes that when you start sweating, you start to get cold.

Lucky one hour of day!

Today I went for a morning run right before lunch time. I enjoyed it so much. I got home just in time before the rain. I went later because early in the morning it was raining a lot! I guess I went the one hour it didn't rain in the day.  We're expecting rain until Wednesday night. Then again, the weather man here is not very trustworthy. We will see if he is right this time. =)

November 20 is a day to remember

November 20 is the day! It is the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. Why is this important you may ask. Well, in honor of this event, 10 of the Mexico's brightest filmmakers are making a movie. The title is Revolución. You may see it on YouTube on 11/20 and this is the preview to the movie.
Take a look for yourself. I am very excited for this.

I found out about this, right after I went for a run.  Even though, my run was great and that is the reason I am happy. I am more happy to find out about this. I was checking online to see if this movie has been shown in important movie festivals and in fact it was. I think they are doing a great job marketing this movie. I guess we will have to wait and see to see how it is.

It was a beutiful day after all!!!

What a beautiful day! It was time!! After three days of rain, a sunny day and a blue sky is appreciated. Too bad I woke up to read some bad news though Facebook but I'm sure everything is for the best.
I went for a much needed morning run and I finished my workout with some abs.
Yesterday was so perfect that the scenery was great throughout the day.
In the afternoon when I went downtown there was an extra special view. Since I didn't have a camera again I tried to take one with my phone but I'm afraid it's not so nice.
The mountains looked exceptionally nice because the colors are changing from a dark green to some burnt orange, yellow and many shades of green.
Riccardo went to watch AC Milan play against Real Madrid. His friend had an extra ticket and invited him to go. He'll be back late. I ended up spending my evening with Riccardo's sister's family. At first I went over to help the oldest nephew in some corrections from his English test and then I ended up talking with his sister until late.
Now I'm so tired it's time to go to sleep.

Three day weekend is over!!

The three day weekend finished and it has been raining since Saturday night with high speed winds. The trees have almost lost all of their leaves. It finally stopped raining about one hour ago when I decided to go for a run. The sky is still white which means that it will keep raining later probably.
The weather forecast showed a sunny day tomorrow. Let's hope so because with one hour less of sunlight in the evening, the days seem so short and the weather definitely doesn't help.