David's Italy Post: Day Five

Day 5:Finally, a day of rest! We slept in until we woke up, which was VERY refreshing, but I woke up around 7:30 (which is odd for me). When you figure that I went to bed shortly after 9, it makes more sense, but still. ;-)
We went to lunch at the restaurant that we tried to get to our first night and found it a couple curves down the road further than we went the first night. Oopsie! Once we were there, we looked through the menu and Carmen decided on pasta while I was debating between the pork loin, sausage, lamb, or beef steak. I decided on the steak and MAN was I glad I did! I'd have to say it was THE best steak I've ever had (or at least an immediate second)! I normally like my steaks medium rare, but the language barrier didn't translate and they cooked it fully, but it looked light (almost the color of pork), it was juicy, and was one of the most flavorful pieces of meat I had ever eaten. I asked Carmen if I should give my complements to the chef or the farmer and she said neither because they wouldn't speak English. True. LOL!
We walked the 800 meters back up the winding hill, during which time I recalled from high school track that 800 meters is 1/2 a mile... although I could never run that far back then, which explains why I didn't remember. LOL!
Carmen went back to reading her book, and I set back to captioning the pictures of the first 3 days of our trip, which ended up taking most of the day (and to note, it took another day to caption the next couple days of our trip after we got home). I had a little panic about the plug when the battery got low because the power converter we had to buy was a 2-prong plug while my laptop plug is a 3-prong. :-s On the plus side, the front desk had a 3-prong converter that they let me borrow and I was able to caption all of the photos up until then and sort out the ones that didn't work well (removing the blurry and superfluous ones). I was surprised when it took 2 full charges of the laptop to finish them all.
By the time we noticed how late it was, we realized that our plans to tour the grounds of the resort were basically done as the sun was setting so I cooked a spaghetti supper with the groceries we had gotten and served it up with the few utensils that were offered in our unit. We had a calm and relaxing day so I was more than happy with that. ;-)