Pescina, to August 16th

This is the town of Confetti, Sulmona.  Only thing is the confetti is candy wrapped up to look like different things, flowers, lady bugs, corn etc

 
Getting ready for the big August 15 Festa and a partial family BBQ

 
Aqua duct in Sulmona

The  boys around the campfire Aug 15

The girls around the campfire

Draining the Pasta, you need a big fork in Italy

The moon rising over the BBQ

Italian  Bush Road rash

Introduced three-legged races to Italy, Pescina anyways

Enjoying the fun of the moment

IS the pasta ready yet?

Nothing goes to waste especially when there are no plates left

Getting the fire ready

There were hundreds of these Rosteccni's (?) served at the picnic

This was a small bottle of wine going around

Getting set for our heat of 3 legged racing, bit of a height difference but what the hey

We rounded the clubhouse turn and centrifugal force through us off stride, although I still say there was a push from behind,  Road rash was after this

A beauty of the night, note the shawl 

we got caught in the middle of the procession on the day of the Festa in Pescina

Anita after the procession at the apartment they were staying at

The Night Before the Festa 

Quite a show for fro such a small town

 
We were at a town function and these are the ROTECCINIS being prepared for sale, wine was 3 euro and that was for a bottle, beer was 2 euro for a .5 L bottle

Ok is there enough smoke, the fires in the back provide the coals for the Roastticcinis

The dinner was pasta with wild boar sauce, Roasticcini and WINE
 A nice doorway on our pedal bike trip

Finally got Arnesto to smile, this was the dance with the town dinner

A marching band going past Lui & Anita's apartment

Another good lunch with family

A church roof and some of the detail in a small church, Pescina
look out here we come, 4 pedal spots but only 2 working up hill and when we went down no work at all.  That stick shift is the brake and you really really need to reef on it to stop in some cases.  Great fun and we never laughed so much on the entire trip.  wait unitl you see the movie Lui took.

The ride was a bit bumpy but beautiful

this was pizza night in Pesciana, you could have plain or with jewels of the sea, Anchovies.

we had had the pizza and watched the show

Lui, Antia & Venccezo

A few of Liu's relatives in town for the Festa

Pave' & Angelina., the pasta maker for the town and it was fantastic, had to slap the money down and run with her chasing because she did not want to be paid.