Celebrate with Paul Parisi and His New Bride Linda!

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Saturday, June 28, 2013

Celebrate with Paul Parisi and His New Bride Linda!

What a delight to meet our church friend Paul Parisi’s new bride Linda. They are planning their honeymoon for October in Italy, and they live in Decatur. We have been talking with him for a while about getting together to celebrate their wedding, and it worked out perfectly. They got married last Friday, and yesterday, Paul Parisi called to invited Peter and me to celebrate their wedding AND his retirement that day at dinner tonight. We were really pleased to meet Linda, who has worked in Juvenile Justice in Atlanta for many years. We had a lot in common. She just retired recently, too, so they are starting their married life as retirees. Cool! You’ll love it!

They both wanted to hear about our trip to Italy, which we are always glad to recount.  We realized that their plans for their October wedding trip included some places we have visited before.  After a wonderful meal of pasta and salad all around, we followed them to their house, where we got real specific about suggestions we had about their trip while we enjoyed Linda’s dessert of cookie with fruit…YYYYYUUUUUMMMMM!!!!!.

The trip is to be 3 weeks…that was perfect. They described what they had in mind for those 3 weeks, and Peter’s good-natured response was, “That sounds to me like a perfect 6 week trip!”

They were going to start with a few days in Rome…that’ll be lots of fun. Then, they have rented a home in a mountainous area that seems like a true resort, very secluded and private, but nothing to do close by other than hiking. They had made plans to stay there a whole week, but Peter suggested that they use that as a recuperating place after a jet lagging flight and much ado in Rome. He thought that they could relax there before moving on to some place in Tuscany where they could stay and make day trips to nearby sights. Afterward, a few days in Bologna and take in a cooking school there would be nice. Taking the train from there to Venice for a few days before flying back home would be fantastic. They seemed to agree with us that moving from one place to the next every day sounded exhausting, so it’s possible that they will decide that this plan of staying 3-4 days in each place and just making day trips out to different sights from there will suit them perfectly.

We will meet again soon with some of Paul Parisi’s renown food paired with Peter’s pasta to help them finalize the details. For now, Linda and Paul, thanks for a wonderful evening full of good food and great conversation. This is so much fun sharing our Italian memories and helping you plan yours. See you again soon! A presto!

Colleen