Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Happy Pre-8th Birthday!

Penelope's 8th birthday would occur while she was in Venice with her parents, but she wanted to do a pre-birthday celebration with us during our week together in northern Italy. Having already bought her gift in Florence, we were happy to oblige. It all occurred on a travel day, from Pisa, past Florence, to Padua and our next cultural experience.
Before embarking for Padua, we stopped at the Pisa Carrefours for an extended
shopping session at a really large ipersupermercato; above, meter-long sausages

Funny tomatoes; it was to be a foodie sort of day, which is fine because P is
quite a foodie

For lunch, grandpa's puttanesca tapas

For P and grandma, chicken cordon bleu (a new favorite)

For birthday dinner, steak, mushrooms and spinach

Trying the mushrooms (she likes it! she likes it!)

And the spinach (ditto); garlic helps everything

Grand-parental dessert

Birthday girl dessert

And, after a candle and singing, opening the present



A silver bracelet with charms from Italian cities; happy birthday, Sweet P!




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