Adventures in Italy

I've been in Madrid for a few days now and I'm loving it. It's really intense because (surprise) everyone speaks Spanish here. My trip to Italy was AMAZING. My grandparents and I were talking about how every year since I was really little I've been asking "can I go with you next year?" This year was finally my year and it was awesome. I got to meet a ton of Italian relatives, all of whom were sooo nice. They we're all very welcoming and took us around to see many of the wonderful sights of southern Italy. The very first thing we did when I arrived (after about 20 straight hours of travel) was go to the car dealership that one of my Italian family members owns. And because it's Italy, we were able to see the prize winning Lamborghini. It was hilarious to see my grandparents sitting in it so I took tons of pictures.
Aren't they cute?

After I had slept off my Jet lag for 12 hours, I was ready to begin my first full day in Italy. My Grandparents, one of the relatives we were staying with, and I drive up to the top off the mountain they live to check out Italy from above. Southern Italy is trying to make overcome years of poverty through manufacturing alternative fuel sources. When we got to the top of the mountain, all you could see for miles and miles were huge wind mills.
When you actually see it in person it's a really impressive sight. The windmills are HUGE and it's awesome to think about how much natural energy they're capturing.
We were also able to go to a small lake where the Napolitanos like like to go to get away from the city on a Saturday or Sunday. That afternoon we went to the nearest city to where we were staying, Benevento. It's a really old, very beautiful city where some of the buildings were built BC.
We got to check out the local museum, which had some really great Roman and Egyptian artifacts as well as some more modern sculpters and paintings. This was one of my favorites. What a face!
We also saw the Arch of Tryan, an ancient Roman emporer.Alright, that's all I've got for tonight. I'm going to hit the sack becasue one of my classes starts tomorrow. More to come on my trip to Italy and of course the begining of my year in Spain.