We left the mountains today. Hopped on the Autostrada and headed down to Montebelluna to meet up with my friend Luciano. Luciano runs Solda Wax, for which we (WebSkis) are the US importer. Luciano met us as soon as we got off the Autostrada and lead us to our hotel. As soon as we got settled, we hopped in his car and he took us on a great drive around the area where he grew up, telling us all sorts of great stories - my favorite being the one about him and his brother finding a machine gun from WWII when they were 10 or 11 years old and shooting the crap out of trees. Very funny stuff. Anyway, Luciano took us through the rolling hills and we stopped off for some wine and sandwiches at a cool little hillside restaurant. This was the first time that Angela and I really felt like we were in the heart of Italy. There were a bunch of older men sitting around drinking wine in the afternoon, on a patio covered with some type of viney plant, and chickens running around the countryside. It was great. After the glass of wine, we drove through the country and came upon this huge residence that is owned by the daughter of the Countess (or something like that). I guess when Luciano was younger, the Count owned 95% of the area, so let's just say he was pretty well off. Luciano was born in a house that was just over the fence from the Countess' farm lands. We drove down through the vineyards and Luciano stopped to steal some grapes (he told us to stay in the car so that we wouldn't get busted). The grapes were delicious. From there we drove to Asolo, where we checked out the big castle that was built for a queen (in exchange for Cypress). We had a spritzer of some sort, and then headed to Treviso for dinner. Treviso is a super cool, super old Italian town built by the romans thousands of years ago. We sat out in the main square and had dinner with Luciano, his wife Faina, and her brother. It felt very Italian. Tomorrow we will get to go to the Solda factory. Should be fun.