So Thursday night we were ready for a new place to try for dinner. Feeling like Dana has done so much good research for our trip, I offered to find us a place for dinner. I looked on Trip Advisor at the top restaurants in the area, really not knowing what to expect. #1 was closed on Thursdays, and #2 didn’t look appealing, so we went with #3.
I called down to the front desk and asked them to get us a reservation. He said, well, that place is often booked full and they have two seatings. It is too late for the first seating, do we want the 9:30pm seating? Since it stays light so late, we thought, sure, why not. It was already 8pm anyway and we weren’t tired since we had a rest day.
Dana was getting dressed up in a dress and I just was dragging my feet wanting to get dressed up – as it was still so hot. But then the front desk called back and said – I got you in and your private boat will be coming to pick you up in 30 minutes. You need to walk down to the dock, can you be ready down here in 15 minutes? I hear ‘private boat’ escorting us to an island and realize, I MUST change. So I do, and then we walk down to the boat dock and wait for our driver wondering, how much is this dinner going to cost us? So far, food has been so cheap in Italy, we figure, well, maybe this will be our ‘birthday dinner’ and we will splurge.
Not quite sure how to describe how the rest of the evening transpired except to say it was ‘magical’ – from the after sunset boat ride to the island, to the setting of the restaurant, to the views, to the view, to the service. It was another ‘Be Our Guest’ moment (on steroids) for both of us. We were giddy and thrilled to have that boat ride and that 3 hour dinner in a fabulous setting and once again grateful for the opportunity to be here, to be almost 50, and have these unforgettable moments in Italy.
