- Number of Euros we owe for a parking fine incurred yesterday: 28
- Steaks we bought from the butcher for tonight’s dinner: 3
- Days we have to pay the parking ticket before it increases to 41 Euros: 5
- Bathrooms that did not have hot water for showers this morning: 2
- Washingtonians it takes to discover a light switch that apparently didn’t do anything but in reality turned off the hot water heater: 6
- Hours it took for the hot water heater in two bathrooms to recover from being inadvertently turned off last night: 12
- Temperature of our outdoor pool: 62
- Number of men who swam briefly in the outdoor pool: 2
- Grandchildren we Facetimed with tonight: 3
- Hours it takes to wash one load of laundry: 1
- Days it takes for one load of laundry to dry on the drying rack in the basement or outside, depending on the weather: 2
- Number of Italian spice packets we three ladies purchased in Castillina: 29
- Scoops of gelato consumed for lunch by six people: 15
- Etruscan tombs visited: 1
- Pastries we purchased for dessert tonight: 18
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- Etruscan museum visited: 1
- Euros paid into a parking meter to park in Castillina today so we would not incur another fine: 3
- Hours 3 Euros is worth in the parking lot: 3
- Fellow Americans we adamantly warned to go back and purchase a parking permit so they would not also incur a fine like we did: 2
- Euros paid to use the public WC: .50
- Number of people who used the public WC: 1
- Number of people we thought about sqeezing into the public WC to save on Euros but really didn’t so don’t dwell on this please: 3
- Minutes we thought we had left before adding more Euros to the parking meter so we would not incur a second fine: 45
- Euros spent in the pottery shop so that we wouldn’t feel badly about asking the proprietor who speaks a bit of English to please translate our parking ticket for us and tell us how to pay it: 56
- Number of Euros the pottery shop proprietor told us we actually had to pay to the meter today because it was Sunday: 0
- Euros wasted on parking in Castillina today: 3
- Euros paid for three very thick steaks to the butcher who whacked them from a hunk of meat and presented them to us with a sweep of his hand: 25
- Hours it took to heat charcoal for BBQing our steaks for dinner tonight: 1
- Minutes for the steaks to cook: 20
- Pastries leftover for breakfast in the morning: 5
Daughter and cat entertained by the story: 1. The çat was bored and fell asleep.