Day of Angels...

January 27, 2012

Yes, Angels must be watching over us.  Today was amazing!  Four MAJOR fabulous things happened!

First of all, we went back to a different Vodafone office, and the guy there, Martin, (or Mateo) was so incredibly helpful!  He got our phones working within minutes when the other office couldn’t do it in two days. 

The second thing is that we couldn’t get our internet to work on our computers.  Martin spent quite a working on it to no avail, but he just wouldn’t give up.  He finally got it all worked out for us.  Just amazing!

The third thing was that we were told it would take us all day to register with the Italian police if you are staying more than 3 months.  When we went to register, we first ended up in Immigration where everything was chaos and no one knew what was going on.  David told me to stay there and he would check around.  He called me on my newly working phone and told me to meet him next door.  Here we were given the proper paperwork.  We couldn’t understand it, so this Jamaican guy helped us.  It required some of our Landlord’s information so we had to call him.  When we called him, he told us that he had already filed all the paperwork for our registration for us, so we didn’t have to wait in line, we could continue with our day!!!  Yahoo!!!

The final and BEST thing was that we found some police on the street to ask them to explain our ticket to us because we didn’t understand why we got it.  One of the officers was the actual one who gave us the ticket.  He remembered the British car.  He told his colleague (who spoke a little English) that we were parked where the roads crossed.  We explained that we were not and that we were the only car that got a ticket.  The other officer was a woman and she asked us all sorts of questions and figured that we had gotten the ticket because we were tourists.  When she realized that we were staying for four months, she explained it to the guy in Italian and told him to give us a break.  She told us to meet her in the same spot later in the afternoon.  When we met her later on, she took us to the main police office and where we handed our ticket to her boss.  She said okay and nodded to us.  That was it?  It was all taken care of???  Oh my gosh, I got teary-eyed at how nice she was to us! 

We decided to celebrate by going out to dinner.  We found some students to give us a good recommendation for a pizzeria (to please our poor kids).  It ended up being a great place with authentic pizza that was absolutely fabulous!  We are home now with full tummies and internet service so we can feel connected again.

Oh Happy Day!!!  J

~Mary