WEDNESDAY MAY 25-16 8:00 am - Yesterday
was our Wedding Anniversary. It doesn't
seem possible the years have really flown by.
I'm not one to go over in my mind 20 years ago, 25 years ago or 40 years
ago, not all was - shall I say, comfortable - but we do have many, many wonderful years to thank God for. Our children are grown and our Grands are
maturing into amazing young adults; in high school, college and in the
military. So proud of you all.
So, what to do? What can we do or
where can we go to celebrate?
Dinner. Let's do dinner somewhere
special. We met with my cousin and his
wife and walked down old St Peter-St Paul Street, Valletta, with its charming
old architecture, stone carvings and wood gossip boxes. You see the passing of time on these
buildings and I wonder about the lives lived here in days past, who were they,
what did they do, where are they now. The
old dirty, neglected doors are deceiving.
Open one and inside may be a beautiful lobby leading either to offices
or a staircase to individual flats or perhaps a Villa is protected from view by
the 10-12' high, narrow, grimy, double door. You can't tell. 
We made our way to Nenu, The Artisan
Baker with its clear glass floor entryway, down glass steps into the middle
lower level to the restaurant. Below
again, through glass flooring you can view a display of old tables and the ovens
used in antiquity to most recently. In
this particular bakery apparently sweet pastries and breads were made. We had a wonderful meal and then walked back
into Valletta's centre for some Gelato and I danced - with Marlene, along with
some other women - tourists, locals, who knows, to a familiar Italian folk
tune, a musician was playing in the street.
What fun. Caught our bus home
exhausted from all the good food, laughs and dancing in the street. How lovely.
Ciao
