Saturday, October 4, 2008

Dawn & Julian stay at Villa di Simioni and Dawn hits the Big 5-Oh!

I think our week looked something like this:

Carolyn took them to Old Towne for Mexican food, then Chin's Chinese the next night.
We went to Curbside Cafe for lunch, Chicken Picatta dinner here.
Bacon & Eggs cooked outside on the grill; Paninni's in LaJolla for lunch;
Picked up the Black Forest cake at the European Bakery in Point Loma and got a carry-out of
Volare's speghetti & meatballs. We followed that with Gelato in Little Italy.
We had Cessy's famous tacos Wednesday for Carolyn's birthday, then a great steak & shrimp dinner at Ronee's.

Thursday we barely came out of the pool, enjoying Coronas & lime, and cigars all day, after Evolas stuffed us with potato & egg pie (15 eggs!!!) for breakfast.
We also enjoyed fresh-squeezed OJ, from oranges we picked ourselves at a neighbors!
Later Carolyn joined us and we all continued our "Poor Man's Trip To Italy" and had pizza at
Ciao's just down the street in Vista. We split a cannoli 5 ways!

Friday all 5 of us spent the day touring wineries in Temecula!
We visited five but only drank at 2. The boys spent a couple of hours at a fancy cigar bar in Old Temecula while Dawn, Carolyn, and I ate sushi the walked the little town for about a half hour. But oh that half hour! This is how we greeted the guys when we went back to pick them up:










They almost wouldn't come out! (Can you blame them?)

Still exhausted, Saturday was Fillaberto's tacos for lunch, then one more Italian feast: this time at Marco's around the corner. Friends of the Evolas, Dave and Nancy, came down from Torrance, California (LA) and we stuffed ourselves again! Even though we got free spumoni for Dawn's birthday, we went back and had ANOTHER chocolate cake!

HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY DAWN!
It may take until you are 100 to burn off all the calories!

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