9 Days til DC

I'm going to be home for a little visit in 9 days. I arrive the evening of Wednesday, June 17 and I leave on Wednesday, June 24. That weekend (Friday late afternoon to Sunday early afternoon) is the Latchaw Family Reunion in Gettysburg, PA. So that weekend is full of wild Latchaw merriment. Unfortunately, Fabri won't be traveling with me. He has an oncology exam tomorrow for specializing school. When he goes to that, he'll learn when a second exam will be, also in June, so he couldn't plan to come to the US and risk missing the second exam. It's not such a great system if you ask me.... Anyway, I'll be traveling alone, which doesn't make me happy, but I've done it many times before.

Meanwhile, Fabri will be working, studying and taking care of the puppy! Poor guy.

We've been spending a lot of afternoons in Ruffia next to the pool. Olney really loves it there because he gets to be off the leash and has a huge yard to run around in. He's still not sure about the pool. We carry him in with us and he swims no problem, but he just heads right back out of the pool. Maybe as it gets hotter he'll want to go in on his own.

I've been keeping busy with my classes. I also have 3 private students which is 3 hours a week. Fabri and I are also starting a business where we do Italian English translations of scientific and medical documents. We had one person interested in our translating a CT report into English, but they wanted to pay only 12 euros for it. Our estimate was 50 euros. You have to pay for a doctor and native speaker's time. We're going to advertise in the hospitals around here and maybe set up a website.

I'm excited to say that I have been seeing a lot of honey bees around here. It's been sad in the US with all the honey bees dying. They're all over the clovers. The dog run at our apartment complex is full of them!