Moon over Toscana 2011

DOCUMENTING FOR OUR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND OTHER INNOCENT BYSTANDERS,
THE SIGHTS, SOUNDS AND TASTES OF OUR VARIOUS ADVENTURES.


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9.5 - ANDADO A TOSCANA

And so it begins again Dear Hearts,
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 so we fly to Venice mid-September 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 in Montale at Il Pianaccio a little Agriturismo  in Northern Tuscany run by the family of 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...

Ciao 4 Now,

Chuck and the "Glad He Finally Picked a Damn Date", Dragon Lady

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