| When a trip is long over and you have settled back into the daily grind of work and home the details of your trip seem distant. It felt particularly rush to me because once we returned home there was a mad rush to make our new home livable. We lived our of our suitcases for several weeks until we found and opened the boxes of our clothes. This mad rush lead us right to Christmas when were finally had our housewarming party. And the holiday craziness lead almost to now. I try to reflect on our travels whenever I get a moment. This time I am reflecting on our anniversary meal in Venice. Our wedding anniversary was actually on Aug. 28th, two days before leaving for our trip and one of our worst days of 2009. We had mutually decided not to get any gifts for each other. The trip and the house were our presents enough. Somewhere in the mess of the days before we left and the excitement of the beginning of our trip we made unofficial plans to celebrate our anniversary with an expensive and fancy dinner near a canal in Venice. After our first miserable day in the city of water, canals and flooding the anniversary dinner plan did not look promising. Luckily our second of two and a half days was beautiful and inviting. We had seen two cute restaurants right next to a little canal near our hostel the night before but looked around the entire the next day for other options. Other than the really big expensive restaurants along the grand canal which did not excite us we could not find anything we liked. So we went back to the two places near our temporary home base. We could not have been more satisfied. It was beautiful and delicious. We ordered the fish. we got a kick out of them presenting us the whole, raw fish before and after cooking. Then they proceeded to delicately dish equal portions of the fish on each of our plates. Yum! and what a beautiful place! |
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