Catania is not the greatest city in the world but they have a pretty good Duomo. Saint Agatha's Cathedral in was built in 1070 and is a World Heritage Site. It features baroque architecture and is the resting place of the famous Opera composer, Vincenzo Bellini. It’s only about 20 minutes from our house so a couple of weeks ago we went into town to take a gander. We try to take little trips like this on weekends.This past Saturday featured many big football games but the biggest in our community was the annual Army Navy game. A lot of people we know here went to the Naval Academy and so our friend Dan threw a party to watch the game. It was a barbeque and many people showed up to watch Navy win the game 34-0.
On Sunday Shannon invited her girlfriends over to make Christmas cookies. They got into the spirit immediately with Santa hats and Christmas music. I tried to hide most of the time but there was a lot of mess and a lot of noise. I will say that the cookies that resulted from the chaos looked and tasted very good.
