Last week, Elisabetta Canalis tried to start yet another rumor that she and George Clooney were engaged. She went shopping in Milan (probably using Clooney’s credit cards, right?), wearing a ring on THAT finger. She made sure the photographers got a shot of it too – although there didn’t seem to be a diamond on it (INF Daily had photos here). Methinks they’re not engaged, but that Canalis knows how to get the stories started. Speaking of, she and George spend this weekend in her hometown with her family (and the press). The Daily Mail has lots of photos here, and People Magazine – shocking! – had an exclusive about all of George and Eli’s activities in Sardinia:

Nothing like spending a little time with mom and dad: This week brought George Clooney and girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis on a private jet from Milan to the airport of Alghero on the island of Sardinia – where an SUV took them, along with Canalis’s father Casare and one of Clooney’s bodyguards, to the small town of Trenuraghes, perched on the hills overlooking the coast and home to Elisabetta’s parents.

Tresnuraghes (pop. 1,200) is Cesare Canalis’s birthplace and where Elisabetta spent her first 18 years, before pursuing a modeling career in Milan. Cesare, a radiologist, and wife Bruna, a homemaker, live in the middle of town, in a three-bedroom, three-bathroom, two-story white house.

On Wednesday, the first day of their visit, one of Elisabetta’s uncles organized a family luncheon at his house in honor of the couple. After the family reunion came a quick car tour of local scenic sites.

That evening, Clooney, Canalis and her parents went for a quiet dinner in a local haunt known for Sardinian specialties, La rosa dei venti. Owner Gianluca Del Rio the local paper afterward that the meal consisted of homemade gnocchi with meat sauce and ravioli with vegetables, followed by sea bass and the local Cannonau white wine.

Before his visit ended on the second day, Clooney patiently signed autographs and posed for photos with neighbors of the Canalises’. Several greeted the star like an old relative, exchanging many hugs and kisses, and one even handed Clooney a baby for a picture. As one neighbor told a local journalist: “He looked rather awkward with the 7-month infant in his arms, but he posed politely and carefully handed the baby back.”

As the neighbor also noted: “One of the older women there shouted, ‘Ora tocca a te!’ [‘It’s your turn now!’]. Clooney obviously didn’t understand, but everyone turned to look at Elisabetta. She simply smiled.”

[From People]

For goodness sake. What kind of crazy dirt does Eli have on Clooney? Did he kill a hobo and she helped Clooney dispose of the body? Does she have photos of George with underage boys? WHAT IS IT?!? What hold does she have on him? Because this is not the crazy cokewhore the public will accept. I don’t care what kind of brilliant whitewashing is done on her, or how Grampy Clooney just can’t be bothered to find a whole new cokewhore. This is ridiculous! And now he’s meeting her family and allowing her to wander around, pap’ing herself wearing a ring? What’s next, a baby?!? Maybe Clooney just visited her parents to make sure that Eli was born as a girl.

Header: Clooney & Eli on Sept. 2, 2010. Also, Clooney on August 2, 2010. Credit: WENN. Additional photos of Canalis courtesy of The Berry.