pasta aplenty

Tomorrow is the first day of my upcoming 10-day trip to Italy. I'm going to hook up with my long-lost cousin to scare the hell out of all those Italians. I hope they have enough pasta in the country to keep up fed for the entire trip. If not, we will have to make a quick run into Croatia for some of their famous (at least that's what the Croatians say) mussels. So tonight I will go to sleep practicing my pronunciation of "polenta," "prego" and "piatti."