"Cut the Pickle...Tickle, Tickle"

Woke up at 7am this morning. I had an appointment at 10am to see yet another room. I went downstairs, back to the dreaded restaurant for some breakfast. I have to say though, what they lack in supper quality, they definitely make up in breakfast because wow has it been good though both mornings. So there I was sitting stuffing my face with cheese (lots of it), yogurt, croisant (sp?), etc... lol and I was people watching. I learned this trait way back when from my grandma. I have always been a fan. ;) anyway, I was watching an East Indian family a couple of tables away from me as they ate there breakfast. They did speak english but it was hard to understand them at times. (yup, thats right, I was listening that intently to them). Well the 2 kids (boys) must have been about 10 and 12 were fooling around. All of a sudden I seen them do the 'punch it' thing with each other. I chucked to myself but kept watching. Then, I seen them do it again but this time they actually made and said the following..... "Knock it, Lock it, Cut the pickle, tickle tickle" I couldn't contain myself and I did giggle outloud to that one. I immedialty thought of my wonderful 3 year old niece (and I am sure I have told some of you this story before) but Chloe does that exact same thing. However, she is 3 and I think Terry taught it to her, but wow it is the funniest thing when she does it. So, to be sitting in a restaurant in Florence and hear two east indian kids saying and doing the exact same thing, was definitely weird.

I headed out to my 10am appointment, by bus of course, only to get stranded at the train station bus terminal. I couldn't find my bus anywhere. I decide though to jump in a cab and made it here at exactly 10am. So I looked around a bit and decided that yes, I was going to take it. She is charging me 200euro's for the 10 days that I will be staying here and then I move on yet again. This place is available after that but I really liked yesterday's place and Mario seemed so nice that when I emailed him to tell him I was taking it, he responded back with a "I am so glad, I am glad to have you!" so that made me feel good. He has a gf girls so don't get any crazy "is he cute?" ideas. I will be going there tomorrow sometime to pay him the deposit for the place. So back to this one. I like it, its decently sized (about the same size as my hotel room was) and everyone seems super nice. There is one girl and 3 guys living here. The girl (Valentina) speaks English very well and I guess one of the guys does as well but he is gone until next week. The other 2 guys don't speak any english and Val tells me that they are shy so she doesn't think they will talk to me that much (if any). I'll work on them though. Who wouldn't want to talk to me?!? ;-)

I made my first trip to the supermercata (supermarket) today. It was about a 10min walk which was fine going but sucky coming back because I bought 2 full bags of groceries. It was actually pretty easy and what I thought was relatively cheap. For example, I bought a 4 pack of pepsi (355ml bottles) and it was 1.35 euros (so about $2). A bag of pasta was about .70 euros. Pretty much everything was like that. In total I spent 20 euros...a steal of a deal! Made spagetti for supper and Val laughed at me as I put Ketchup on my spagetti. I can't help it, I love my ketchup. :)