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10/27/2003

October 27, 2003 at 8:00 am

um, we got married
wedding pics, and more wedding pics. and lots more to come.
honeymoon pics
getting perfectly sunny, mid-70’s weather on the wedding day
seeing everyone in their tuxes
a surprise appearance by the d-man
my shoes are like new thanks to tony the shoe guy
i broke the glass on the first try
i thought i was gonna lose it at the beginning, but luckliy i didn’t turn into a blubbering mess
i have a shiny new ring
my friends didn’t embarrasss me at the rehearsal dinner. a minor disappointment
mike’s speech at the rehearsal dinner using the report that i wrote about him in 6th grade
going back to the hotel bar after and watching the red sox-yankees game still wearing our wedding clothes. too bad the sox lost.
i love my tux. i’m glad i get to wear it again soon.
somehow managing to see all of the sights in rome in 2 days while still completely dilirious from the wedding
pizza b in Jeffrey Steingarten’s book, It must have been something that i ate, and we went and found it. un-fricking-believeable. so good.

hotel barocco
Tullio
Gusto
the EuroStar trains. so much better than those crappy ones i took while backpacking through europe 5 years ago
everything about positano. what an unbelieveable place.
hotel buca di bacco
what incredible food. we pretty much ate pizza for lunch and pasta and seafood for dinner every single day. didn’t exercise for 3 weeks. didn’t gain a pound. gotta love that mediterannean diet. must’ve been those 2 bottles of wine a day
le tre sorelle. we ate lunch there almost every day
chez black. and the restaurant owner’s dog nerone, who seemed to follow me everywhere
lo guarancino. probably our favorite restaurant there, which was also the homiest and cheapest. the never-ending jog of house wine.
fresh marinated anchovies. trust me.
squid, octopus, cuttlefish, mussels, clams, anchovies, shrimp, prawns. we started to smell like seafood after a while. which isn’t a good thing.
the bus trip to amalfi, although awful, was an experience to remember. thank god i didn’t rent a car there.
every day went like this: wake up, have breakfast on the terrace overlooking the ocean. walk around for a little bit. go have lunch. walk around a little bit, read a little bit. 2-3 hour nap. shower, go to dinner. go to bed. repeat.
eating proscuitto every morning for breakfast
nutella
gelatto
and most importantly, nutella flavored gelatto
buffalo milk mozzarella
the artichokes at le tre sorelle
being able to read again. jeffrey steingarten’s it must have been something i ate, and laura brennan’s the fourth star
pretty much a perfect 3 weeks.
more as i think of them…