This is so cheesy...

Today Conor had the day off from scuola.  We needed to get out of the house, and Gene and Conor and Phantom and I were going to go for a hike, but it was muddy and foggy like this:

So we left Phantom to guard the casa and went to an ipermercato (hypermarket, like a Target/Walmart thing) to look for quaderni.  There was a lot of traffico because everyone was trying to get to/from Vicenza in unusual ways.

Conor brought a libro and read it the whole time:

We found some quaderni, and we poked around too.  Here is some horsemeat:

Here is Conor reading in front of some Italian cat food with a grumpy-looking gatto on it:

Here are Conor and Gene in the vino section:

Here are some tiny panettoni:

Then we went to a caseificio (cheese factory) where they have a giant fiberglass ruota di formaggio outside:

Grana padano is the same as parmagiano, but it's from Veneto, not Parma

Dentro (inside), there was lots of formaggio (cheese) and things:

Asiago

Provolone (dolce = sweet) and Grana of various ages

More formaggio

Gelato

Vicenza cooking cream (panna cucina)

After that, we found a little coffee place and I got frothy warm latte (milk).  Here's Conor enjoying his brioche:

That is our cheesy morning!  Ciao from me, Bridget