that was just a little joke I was playing on you

so first of all. that last blog post was going to be a very nice, sentimental, mushy, happy, loving post about how great italians are and how we met lots of very sweet people yesterday and how luciana is taking such good care of us during all of this bug nonsense....

but then.

we went out. and before we went out, there was a bug. a little round, flat, brownish-red bug. crawling on my wall. i decided to ignore it and assume it was a fluke....

too bad that was NOT the case.

at 230 am when julie and i got home, we found 5 more. and then 6, 7, 8.....9, 10..... THIRTEEN MORE. little baby ones, big full ones, crawling on the floor, the bed, the light switches..... everywhere. per tutto.

long story short, i texted giovanna, she called back immediately, i was awake in the living room trying to nap until about 7am at which point luciana realized i wasn't in bed and she freaked out, we were up looking at bugs in my room for an hour, then i napped some more, talked with giovanna, then luciana, then ali and julie, then giovanna, then luciana, over and over.

verdict: we are moving out this afternoon/evening to either an apartment or a bed and breakfast. we will eat either in the apartment, out, or possibly with luciana every night (which i don't understand because i don't think anyone should even BE in this apartment at this point....) and while we are gone, they are going to re-exterminate. hopefully the ENTIRE house this time. not just the "spots" where the bedbugs "most likely" live. they need to do inside the walls, the sockets, the light switches... poor luciana having to pay all this money......

anyway, if after a week the coast is clear (which we will know only after staking out in my room with giovanna in the middle of the night on a bug-watch to ensure they are not lurking - giovanna's idea), we will move back in. if there is any sign of any bugs, we are being reassigned to new families and new houses....

talk about a nice welcoming into florence.