It was amazing, SC. We got off the plane, in this absolutely beautiful country, and hoping maybe this priest will be there to show us around, and there's this huge crowd, waving banners and chanting my mother's name, and their holding huge bouquets of gladioli for my mom.

And then to meet Zio Vincenzo! My mom was very close to her dad, and she really took his death hard. To see this man, her father's brother for the first time, was just amazing. We only got to see him one more time after that trip before he passed away, and by then he had had a major stroke, but that blood tie is incredible.

Mr. Babe and I have been back to Sicily three times. We tease Mr. Babe that I'm the blood and he's just the water, but they adore him, too.