Ken and Lynette are coming!!!

We bought the tickets yesterday for Ken and Lynette to leave Kansas City on October 2. they get to stay for a little over a week. Now we just have to decide on all the special things we want to do while they're here. I suppose we should ask them first. But in the meantime I can think of a few things.

1) Dinner with Giusseppe, Mimma, Alfio, Marissa, etc. Just a huge dinner with all our Italian friends.

2) Go to the market in Misterbianco. That's almost a must because there is so much of Sicily there.

3) Have gelato in a gelateria. They won't eat ice cream ever again without thinking of the wonderful gelato. But then, again.....granita is nice, too, especially since I've discovered "tonica con limone" (tonic with lemon granita). Or...a granita with brioche, m-m-m-m.

4) Taoramina is essential for both its beauty and the shopping. Oh, and they have a 13th century Greek/Roman ampitheater there that is still in use today.

5) We want them to be able to say they waded in the Mediterranean Sea so we'll need to go to Donna Lucato or somewhere like that. We could take them closer (like Catania) but they'd have to go back and say they'd dipped their toes in the Ionian Sea and then they'd have to explain where that was.

6) Bob says you almost can't come to Sicily without seeing Agrigento. What a beautiful place with ancient Greek temples just like in all the photos.

7) We've been looking forward to taking them to the fall festival in Zeferana for a long time. It will just be starting and people travel far to go to it. A typical Sicilian festival.

8) Our friends have a pizza oven and live near Zeferana so we'll probably have to do both those things in one day. We want them to see a pizza cooked in one of those ovens. It's really interesting.

9) Sicilian food. Ah-h-h-h What more is there to say about that?

10) The Gambino winery. Another very interesting place and it's way up the mountain.

11) Maybe the mountain if it's spewing out lava. It was doing that one night just this past week and people from the school hopped in their cars and drove up to get a good look at the spout. A really great sight. One way or the other they will see the mountain, it's the central focus of everything in our area.

Ken and Lynette.....don't get nervous. We won't run you too much but.....could you stay maybe a year?