ARIVADERCHI - ROMANCE????

Driving @ 100km around mountains in Alps
Snow covered mountain we drove around and through tunnel
One of many tunnels we drove in and through the Alps

I was so excited that now, we are heading for Italy. Things are gonna be good now. OOPS! Just like before, we can't read or understand any of the signs on the highway. There was another big problem. We had to go back through the Alps. When we went through them the first time into France was scary enough. My foot was almost putting a hole in the floorboard braking for John S. and his speed limit going around and inside tunnels through those huge snow covered mountains. BUT now, we are later in the day going through them. There were places you could look off the side and see villages way down at the bottom. Now everyone knows how I feel about traveling in the mountains. They are pretty to look at - that is , in the distance, or going beside them but different going up in them. I kept moaning and groaning thinking he would slow down but then I would have to groan a little stronger to make him slow down. (He does love that Mercedes). It is amazing how you are coming right up to a mountain and I could see this one huge snow covered one thinking we will go beside it. No. You go through it. That's right, they have built tunnels all over those things and you drive for miles in a tunnel. I would rather do that than go along the edge looking down. We finally got through all the tolls in Italy and through the Alps and came into Milan. Oh, I could hardly wait. The traffic had been terrible like 5:00 traffic in Dallas. It is about 6:30 pm Sunday. Now what can you do at that time there. Sure can't shop. Everything is probably closed. All I could see were those Alps ahead of us and we had to travel 5 hours to get back home. Well, I started pouting and John said he would bring me back next weekend just to Milan. I said no it is too far and still kept pouting. I said I had always wanted to go to Italy and go to a restaurant and be serenaded by a romantic italian singer over candlelight. John said "let's just eat here then so you can experience that". We told "Miss Gips" to find a restaurant close and take us there. Well, now we are going to find out what kind of person this "Miss Gips" is. mmmmmm! not so good. SHE TOOK US TO THE "HOOD". We definitely were in the wrong side of town. It was getting later and I just kept saying I wanted to get through those mountains before dark. Well, WE DIDN'T. I was a total nervous wreck . That was the scariest trip I ever took through those mountains at night. It was DARK DARK DARK. Speed was 100km. Can you believe that? Driving around those sharp curves literally inside and out of those huge mountains. I was doing more than moaning and groaning on that trip. You can imagine what I was saying and doing. Poor daddy. I had actually grown some fingernails out but they are sure gone now and smoking was hot and heavy. We got home a little after midnight with some stories to tell and memories to keep forever.