Our living room is now stacked with boxes.  Our mint green-coloured living room.  (*side story*) We asked our locatore (landlord) if we could paint some of the rooms, and it turns out that he still needed to re-paint the living room &amp; if we gave him a color choice he would paint it for us.  We decided on a loden green &amp; gave him a page out of Jennifer's bridal magazines with a green colour swatch circled.  Come move-in day, we were excited to see our colour on the wall and were v.shocked to walk into a room painted a pistachio/mint green colour.  "Maybe it's Italian Green?" we thought, in remembrance to the fact that the exterior of our house is painted orange &amp; yellow (a frequently used combination in Italia) and our terrace is painted medium green and yellow.

Regardless, we are happy to be moving into our new place.  There is a LOAD of cleaning to be done, furniture to be re-assembled, and directions on how to work the Italian clothes dryer to be found (you have to empty the water accumulator after each load).  By 19:30, the movers were gone, the Housing Warehouse folks had left, but the Landlord, the Landlord's son, &amp; the electrician still worked on.  This made getting showered and ready for dinner @ 20:00 quite difficult, but we made it work.  Mental note that just b/c a restaurant offers Mexican/Tex-Mex food in Italy, does not mean it is anything even resembling that genre of food.

The search for Jennifer's power drill continues...frankly it's driving her mad, but we have a bed to sleep in and lots to do!