And so it begins again Dear Hearts,
and innocent bystanders...
and innocent bystanders...
Casa d'Chaos is finally back to some semblance of order, well... almost, but just to re-cap:
- 2007 Featured a Walk on the Great Wall of China, then Uncle Chuck's bout with Cancer - The 2006 planned kitchen renovation gets placed on hold. [Chucky 1 - Cancer 0!!]
- 2008 The kids and 1 baby move home as Greg starts a new Job, & on July 10th... Charlie arrives! Household head count up to 7! Renovation on indefinite hold, sooo... WTF - MEDCRUISE 2008!!
- 2009 Illy's retirement kicked off the Dragon Lady Does America Tour with NOWAT-ALASKA 2009 & a great visit with The Scintillating Sedlik's in Seattle. Oh... and one offspring out - head count now 6.
- 2010 FINALLY... with the Greg, Cristina & kids in Colombia for a month, the Minor Kitchen renovation turns into a Major renovation of Casa d'Chaos - the Dragon Lady's most Excellent Milestone Birthday Partaaaay christens the new Kitchen and another offspring comes home - head count back to 7.
- 2011 The Kids and their brood move to a rental, leaving one offspring in the Green Room, now referred to as THE REFUGE - head count 3!! The Dragon Lady now commuting on Permanent GrandMa duty.
- And... last but not least - December 5, 2011 will mark 25 years of Marital Bliss [?!?] for Uncle Chuck and the Ever-Lovely Dragon Lady, and you know what that means...
ROAD TRIP!!!!
Yup... as the title notes, on September 20th we're
Off to Tuscany
to celebrate our 25th Anniversary with a romp around the mother country. [It's too damn cold in Northern Italy to go in December] We fly to Venice then drive to Lake Garda, Verona, Bologna, Lucca, Siena, Greve in Chianti and the Cinque Terra, along with several other day trips to vineyards, villas, borgos and wherever, from a cute villa on a hilltop at Il Pianaccio [ßLink] a little Agriturismo in Northern Tuscany run by a chef Chucky knows and lastly, maybe a train ride through the Alps to St Moritz [or... maybe not] before flying back from Milan on October 5th. {Wheeewww - I'm outta breath just thinkin' about it!}
As, itineraries solidify and the trip proceeds or whenever Chucky gets bored, we'll send a ***NOWAT ALERT***. Or... if you just need a break from your boring game of 麻將 [MahJong], you can check this blog periodically for our latest Girare-U [u-turn].
Sooooo... grab a favorite beverage, sit back, put your feet up and Gustare Toscana with The Wacky American Tourist and the Ever-Lovely Dragon Lady.
We promise you... it will be ANYTHING but Boring.
Until then...We promise you... it will be ANYTHING but Boring.
Ciao 4 Now,
Chuck and the "Glad He Finally Picked a Damn Date", Dragon Lady
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