...I've enjoyed a lovely birthday and it's only half over; received kisses from Dutch n Swedish friends, kind wishes from the isle of both Malta and New Zealand, lovely, wonderful notes from Paris, Rome, London and from across the pond, old friends from NY, Chicago and Seattle sent their very best, forwarding them in advance to arrive on time.
And if this weren't enough, It would appear I've yet another porn star following me on twitter! What a surprise, their provocative names mysteriously show up as followers until they mysteriously unfollow me, but then, just about everything regarding twitter remains a mystery to me.
But the biggest surprise arrived around 1 as we cycled aimlessly underneath the warm sun surrounding lignano sabbiadoro, casually looking for lunch...we'd have been content with a baguette or a slice of pizza. Curbing our enthusiasm as well as our appetite for the hedonistic effort would be made at dinner we parked our bikes against the non-descript trattoria and looked through the sliding glass door....improvisimente, a slim black clad Italian woman threw the door open, insisting we usher in our basket of papillons.
She escorted us to the table and immediately two water dishes were put down before the kids with two biscuits placed carefully at either side.
We then enjoyed
glasses of prosecco, a bottle of cab-merlot blend from the Friuli-Venezia
region, colorful platters with a dozen kind of fresh fish, pasta, cappuccini, followed by complimentary limoncello, of course. The kids may look less than enthusiastic but they were giddy, until they fell asleep....birthdays aside, this day's been swell so far...
