viva italia!

i know the game was on sunday, but i was just sooooo busy cooking, hosting, partying, and cleaning up after aforementioned activities that i haven't been able to post (working evenings doesn't help, either)! we had the in-laws over and i made an italian feast - chicken cutlets, pizza rustica alla neopolitana, and a devil's food cake (homemade, not the box kind!) with homemade icing colored like the italian flag! it was all a hit, i'm still taking the leftovers to work, yum...

my nieghborhood is italian central, to say the least. i think we have more here than rome itself! everyone was driving along the streets shouting, blasting their stereos, waving the italian flags - it was a lot of fun and really nice to see people so proud of their country (other than canada, of course). the funniest scene was the dump truck filled about 20-30 people waving their flags and shouting. man i hoped they cleaned that thing out before they climbed in!