Happy 4 Year Anniversary to my other half. Well, I am a day late posting it on here, but we have been busy celebrating and going on dates. Yes, dates, as in more than one! I can't tell you the last time we went somewhere just him and I. It was much needed and we had so much fun!
On Sunday, our friend offered to watch C so we could go somewhere, just the two of us. While searching for things to do, I came across Piovene Porto Godi Winery. I contacted them to see if we could stop by and they said sure! We got ready super fast and dropped C off. He was so excited to play with Holden and Luca that he didn't even care that we left.
I thought it was going to be really busy with tons of people since they advertised it, but it was the opposite. We were the only ones there! Turns out, I read the dates wrong and they weren't doing with vineyard and winery tours until the next weekend. The daughter, who responded to my email and greeted us promised me that it was okay we were there. We were actually lucky because we got our own private tour.
Storage tanks.
There were 3 different cellars filled with barrels of aging wine.
This is the oldest cellar that dates back to when the house was first built in the 1600's.
We were told some of these wines are about 30 years old.
It was beautiful there.
After the tour, it was time to taste wine. Our favorite part. :)
My hot date!
After drinking all that wine, we worked up a huge appetite. We had an early dinner at a restaurant close to the winery and then went to pick up our baby. I'd say it was a successful date!
Yesterday was our actual anniversary. Aaron surprised me with beautiful flowers that he individually picked out to make a bouquet. He did a great job and they smell wonderful.
I couldn't find my vase, so a pitcher had to do!
We had 7:30 dinner reservations at Mestis Steakhouse, a restaurant we had been wanting to try since we moved here. Before we left our house to drop Connor off at our friends, he started acting really clingy. It was almost impossible to get ready because he wanted to be held and was crying every couple minutes. Because of that, we were late leaving. When we got to our friends, I tried giving him medicine and he gagged and threw up. We were about to cancel our reservations, but then Connor settled down and our friend insisted we go. We said we would call her when we got to the restaurant and if he was ok we would stay, if he was upset we would just cancel.
My honey and I.
Connor was fine once we left, so we decided to stay for dinner. We were the first ones at the restaurant, which wasn't surprising because Americans eat early compared to Italians.
We had a big wrap around booth in the back corner.
The menu was mostly in Italian and we had no idea what to order, so we asked our waiter what he recommended. We ended up eating a 4 course meal and it was amazing. It is now one of our favorite restaurants here in Italy.
Left: Complimentary bread with butter and a really good oil dip. Right Top: BBQ wings and bleu cheese.
Left: Aaron's Argentinean steak and cesar salad. Right: My American T-bone steak and grilled veggies.
We couldn't pick just one dessert, so we ordered two: tiramisu and a white chocolate and berry cake thing {I have no idea what to call it}.
We were there for a total of 2 hours. I kept getting Connor updates and just happened to miss the one where our friend said he threw up a second time. I freaked out a little when she called, but by the time she told me he was already asleep. When we went to pick him up, he woke up and had a fever. We gave him some Tylenol and then came home and went to sleep... all 3 of us together in our bed.
{Special thanks to Kelsey for watching Connor for us on both Sunday and yesterday. We had so much fun and wouldn't have been able to go out without you!}
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