From one of my all time favorite musicals.  A little cheeky, and the relation to the events of today will be a hint.  We went to Tra Vigne for lunch today with Luba and her friends visiting from Italy and staying in Santa Rosa.  Lunch was delicious and the setting was pretty glorious too.  We sat out on the patio under the trees and the whole feeling was Italian.  We started with some roasted padron peppers (varying levels of heat) and Mozzarella “al Minuto” which was delicious.  Not sure if the the fresh mozzarella or the bread was better!  David and I shared the fig and gorgonzola pizza – also terrific!  It was great spending the afternoon with Luba and her friends!  Thanks for coming over the hill to visit us.  Luba also asked that I start adding more pictures and videos, so here is something that I didn’t put in a few days ago.

Yesterday, we went to the movies and saw “The Way Way Back”.  I really liked it a lot.  David liked it, but he had some problem that he couldn’t explain to me.  I think he just doesn’t like Steve Carrel and Toni Collette.  I thought they were both good – the characters were not really very sympathetic though.  And Allison Janney was relentless!  Funny.  When we went into the movies, it was sunny and warm, and when we walked out, it was shocking.  The temperature had dropped drastically, and was downright chilly.  The sun was still out, but a cold flow must have come up the bay from San Francisco.  It was pretty cool today to, but really pretty delightful.

Sorry for missing the blog for the past two days, but there really wasn’t much to report, and I was a little tired and uninspired.  Some of you may still think I am uninspired, but, I do the best I can!  In a nutshell, for the past two days – I went to the CIA alone to learn to make stuffed grape leaves, we went to the Hess Estate to look a the art which was fun, but didn’t do any wine tasting there, we watched So You Think You Can Dance (split over two days), Food Network Star, and that is about it.  When I read this tomorrow to David, I am sure there will be something that I forgot that I will need to add.

Paris continues to be reborn, and we are really enjoying that.  I keep going to the iPad to look at maps and check out what the landmarks that they talk about in the book are, and how they changed the city.  It really is impressive.  Also continue to work on my French, but am afraid that it will all be theory until November, and then I will be pushed into the deep end.

Anyway, I will end with another quote from the above musical that is less cheeky, more sentimental and heartfelt – “Maybe it lasted a day, maybe it lasted an hour, but somehow it will never end”.  Just feeling this tonight.