Other posts on this trip: We Spent Last Week in Italy, Wandering Treviso, Cortina, and Bologna.
Our last full day in Italy, we drove almost three hours to Maranello, home of all things Ferrari. The cars are built there, the racing teams are based there, and we went to the Ferrari Museum there. Which was just stuffed full of beautiful red cars.
And I’m so disappointed. I’ve been having a horrendous week with allergies: headaches, itchy eyes, congestion, etc. Then yesterday afternoon a sore throat set in all of a sudden, and this morning it was even worse. I thought I had strep throat, but a trip to the doctor confirmed it was just a really bad allergy attack. But, I’ve been in no shape to prep food for a party, and now a cough has started. So, definitely not the weekend for hosting.
This past week has been a complete and total bust in terms of work and home productivity. Every time I start a new job around a new set of little kids (which seems to have happened much more than I’d like the past couple of years), I get sick like two weeks in. I caught a cold which turned into a make-Jackie-so-dizzy-she-can’t-drive sinus infection and ended up home the entire week on my doctor’s orders. All I can say is, at least this time it’s being fixed before turning into a marathon fight with bronchitis. I’m really over those.
It’s true. It started in college in GA, when I was exposed to a lot of NASCAR. Then I grew up and got all worldly when I met the husband, and I learned about Formula 1, the biggest, baddest racing league on the planet. You think American athletes make a lot of money? It’s pennies compared to European F1 drivers and their crazy rich teams. Ferrari and Mercedes are big names here, not Chevy and Ford. All the cars are custom built in pieces and assembled for each race weekend. One race engine costs more than my house, and they only last one race. It’s as glamorous as sports get, and racing is a sport; those drivers are working hard.