Yachting, the new Easter Tradition

Easter in Italy is an event.  There are cakes and fireworks, special hand painted eggs that cost  a small fortune and bizarre rules about how it's suddenly ok to eat lamb.  However, Easter this year brought another exciting event: the America's Cup races. 

Downtown Naples has been shut down to street traffic along its busiest road to make way for tents and stadium seating, bands and loads of vendors.  It's like a classy street fair!  Our place, high atop the hill of Vomero, has the most amazing view of the Bay of Naples, perfect for watching the races.  To this end, and because of my deep, deep love of themed parties, Easter Brunch became "Easter Aboard the Yacht."  Complete with themed costumes and elegant finger food, belinis and Bloody Mary's - because a themed party always needs cocktails. 

My dear, wonderful, amazing friend, Molly, spent hours helping me make the perfect tiny finger sandwiches for said party on Saturday afternoon.  We made tiny caprese salads on toothpicks, stuffed mushrooms, strawberry bruschetta and on and on and on, whilst watching Lord of the Rings (my favorite movie series of all time.  Go ahead and judge, but I love them).



Just to show that we haven't become too European (as if that was ever a concern), I decorated our bidet.  That's right, bidet decor is huge here with ex-pats.  One of my friends put gold-painted pine cones in her bidet for Christmas and I thought it was brilliant.  Somehow (read drunkenly) the idea for a bidet Easter Egg Hunt came about.  20 Euro centi and a "Mon Cheri" (chocolate covered cherry) were hidden in an egg in the bidet and the hunt was on.  I'm completely embarassed to know that several of our friends spent about 20 minutes searching through the plastic Easter Eggs in our bidet to find such a ridiculous prize. 

Buona Pasqua (Happy Easter) a few days late from Team Keenan here in Bella Italia!