I'm still catching up on a handful of goings-on from the past couple of months, and with this post I think I will finally make it up to the present day . . . On November 12th, I took the sister missionaries out to lunch at a fabulous place called Brunch Republic here in Vicenza. The special occasion was Sister Joder's birthday . . . (her last name is pronounced "Yoder", and coincidentally, on my Snider line we have some Yoders up in our family tree, also from Switzerland). Sister Joder and I got a healthy smoothie . . . Sister Quilter ordered a stack of pancakes . . . And Sister Joder decided to be brave and order something new that she had never tried before: French Toast . . . She ended up really liking it.  I ordered a fried egg with sliced avocado, smoked salmon, toast, and a lovely beetroot "smear" with seeds on top of it . . . It was really yummy.  After we filled our tummies, I drove up to the Monte Berico parking lot where the girls could see all (or...