Alessandria

Another busy week and a busy week coming up.  Monday we were doing all of the food for 50 missionaries for their Christmas zone conference in Alessandria.  Three large spiral cut hams, and 7 - 9 X 12 pans of Gouda potatoes, rolls, veggies, and apple cake for desert..  Alessandria is about an hour south of here so we must do all of the cooking there.  Our plan was to drive down there early Sunday morning, go to church and then use a missionary apartment that is currently unoccupied there to prepare and cook the food.  Sunday afternoon we had a couple of hours before we needed to start peeling 30 pounds of potatoes so we wandered around the town for a while.  We found the Centro and a place to park then started to wander.

Here is a neat old church.

 And it's front door.

 We walked past a several Christmas market booths and then came one where they were making a traditional Christmas candy.  It was made out of sugar, honey and some water and boiled in a copper kettle. Then they pulled it like taffy to pull in air and then stretched it out.  It was cooked to a hard crack and tasted a little burnt.  Oh well, it was great to watch then them make it.

 Another church

 With it's front door.

 Here is an awesome new door.  Wonderful large knocker.

 And a very interesting old door that has seen lots of use.

Also while driving around in Alessandria  we saw this great large tree.

All in all the conference turned out great but was tons of work.  We are very happy that most of the meals we put together for the missionaries are in Milano so we can prepare them at home.