Sooner or later

...I'll invite at dinner my fav BBs members. We'll have fusilli al sugo, salame, potatoes, salade, gelato and cannoli. We'll drink red and white wine and we'll have an espresso to finish. Then we'll watch the GF trilogy in English with Italian subtitles and have a lot of fun.

The question is when this is going to happen, not if.

Now I finally have a reason to return to Italy!! Ooooh I jumped the gun. I have to be a fav and be invited.

you are invited by default.

Yes, Mary Cas. Maybe Lav needs to specify who her favs are before we all start buying our airplane tickets.

Go buy yours, Beth!

Go buy yours, Beth! [/b][/quote]

Ummm...anyone here want to lend me a couple thousand dollars?

Go buy yours, Beth! [/b][/quote]

Ummm...anyone here want to lend me a couple thousand dollars? [/b][/quote]Beth, we could split a ticket. You hide in the suitcase on the flight there, and I'll hide in it on the way back.

2000 dollars? Gosh.... You could come in a group. It's cheaper.

That sounds like a deal. Just tuck me in with a pic of Vinny and I'll be all set.

2000 dollars? Gosh.... You could come in a group. It's cheaper. [/b][/quote]I actually checked..hahaha. Around $1600-$1700 depending on if it has a stop in between or not.

Does this price sound better for anyone?

Beth, that would leave us an extra $400 for gelati and vino.

The New York Post was running an online promo to win a trip to Italy. So I'm going to win.

Check out Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel (they send me weekly emails, but I deleted all them) trip to Florence - Venice, six nights (3 each) and train ticket - $549 round trip. There might be one to Rome!

I'll be in heaven. When do we leave?

Lavinia, I'll be in Rome the first weekend in February 2007

I just checked and I have to apply for a visa three months in advance, which can be denied btw. That's apart from the flight expenses and trying to get a vacation from my job. You can invite me safely. I couldn't come. :p

Hey, there! Do you like your lasagna?

It would be awesome to go as a group with you guys. But I'd have to go to Sicily and look around. :p


TIS

Well, TIS, I'm sure that Beth and I can make some more room in the suitcase for you. Then we can enjoy our vino in Taormina.

Afi, there's not going any dinner WITHOUT you, dear. We'll find a way.

Yeah, that's what I meant! A group is cheaper!

ok, you'll have your Sicilian trip before.

Apparently someone would like to have lasagna as well. Ok, we'll have two first courses. Lasagna AND fusilli. Be sure you have enough room in your stomach, guys. When you are in Italy you HAVE to eat. It would be very rude to eat like a sparrow!

BTW, JM. Your presence would be absolutely necessary. No JM no dinner, ok?

Well, I sketched a guest list (in alphabetical order)..let me check it...at letter K, we got "KCO". Since it could stand for Kansas City Orsacchiotto...it should be you!

Your jokes will do.

WOW!

Afi, there's not going any dinner WITHOUT you, dear. We'll find a way. [/b][/quote]Well, that's one way to blow the whole dinner. :p

not at all. Be more optimistic, sister!

Sounds like advertisment. No JM no dinner. Am I so appetite-provoking, really?

Yeah...it was meant to be!

dunno about appetite, but you are brain-provoking, definitely.

Thank you, my dear, but, you know, intellectual conversation spoils even the best Italian appetite. I must be banished from dinners. Well, If only I could reach Rome by bicycle...

inte- what? :p