Villa Lucia Day 3

Today was a very eventful day. I got up at 8:30 this morning and had breakfast at the Villa. For breakfast I had a glazed croissant and milk. The milk here is much sweeter than the milk in the USA.After breakfast, the group drive to the city of Lucca. Lucca is a walled city thatwas originally built by the Romans in the Medieval ages. TheWall that surrounds the city is approximately 25 feet tall and was originally surrounded by a moat. There was originally an older wall that can be seen in some places. Due to expansion, a different wall, larger in circumference was built during the renaissance. In the center of the city there was a Roman Colosseum, you can see some of the original walls of the colosseum incorporated into the houses on the street. An unexpected find was a labyrinth carved into a pillar of Lucca's cathedral. After we explored Lucca, we ate lunch at a nearby city called Guamo. On returning to the Villa, we struggled to send the last blog due to an internet connection failure. After I finally managed to post the blog, I played tennis with my grandma. I amstill working my serve as it is very difficult to master. We played tennis for about 45 minutes. After we finished playing we went to cooking class. Right before class I had a wonder conversation with Fred the chef. We talked about our dogs. Then the class started, we made deep fried parmesan cheese balls as an antipasti. The first course was black pasta with shrimp. our chef, Fred, colored the pasta with squid ink. The main course was beef roll ups with polenta. and finally the dessert was a nougat. Deep frying the parmesan ball was very exciting standing over the hot oil. I only burned myself once with the oil. Today was a great day, I made new friends.