I have a phone!

Courtesy of Trans Italia Mobile I have a cell-phone which gets free incoming calls, yay! The country code for Italy is 0039, and my number is 338-731-3904. If you call using 10-10-987 the call is 37cents for the first minute and 3 cents a minute after that, which is WAAAAY cheaper than any other way that I've heard to make a call so far. They sell "happiness" cards here which get us 20 minutes call time from Italy to US for 5 euro (about 8 bucks), and that's the next cheapest thing.

Lunch was good, but now we have a sort of siesta time where everyone is pretty bored. The snow is coming down as hard as I've ever seen it in my life, including when I lived in Illinois, which I think is pretty awesome. All the local people we've met are appologizing for the whether, saying "it doesn't usually snow like this in Tuscany" and so on, but we all say "Hey we're from Texas, we've never seen snow before so this is great to us!"

Hopefully I can find a netcafe or something soon and then pictures will go online, until then, ciao!

Edit! Here are some of my first pictures from walking around town:

Our street, so tiny!

The Church with a small parking area which is next to our building. Our building is on the right side of the image.

The view of the countryside estates from near the old town park.

A view of the city from the central district.