I am so excited! October 14th 2009, I am leaving the North American continent for the first time and heading....uh....that a way. I guess I can sum it up best with...
All Roads Lead to Rome!
The best part, I am going with a really cute and handsome guy, who just happens to by husband, thankfully and surprisingly for 25 years now.
Who am I?
You can call me Lou.
Some close friends nicknamed me this years ago and it stuck.
Who is he?
You can call him Bert.
Thats the affectionate nickname I gave him about 30 years ago, and the nickname I use for him when all is going smoothly and we're having fun.
The other nicknames we have for each other, are varied, usually spoken under the breath or at ear-piercing levels depending on the situation. These nicknames are not so affectionate, but definitely effective.
I diverse.
This past month (June 2009) we celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversary. We began as highschool sweethearts and somehow we've managed to ride the rollercoaster so far. We are parents to an amazing, caring, talented and soulful 17 year old son. If you're a parent, you know what I mean. If you too are a parent to an only child, well then you really know what I mean! We have the love and support of a wonderful extended family and funloving and diverse friends. Our home is here in the Okanagan Valley in BC Canada where we live with our real head-of-household, Grover "the world-is-my-oyster" Shitsu.
As we celebrated our anniversary surrounded with good friends, music, laughter and copous amounts of Vino, Bert gave me the best anniversary present I could hope for. He took that big leap of faith and decided he too was ready to travel to Europe. We are stepping out of our element so to speak. Our normal comfort zone of 'what we do' is being stretched. I have had a wanderlust to explore Italy for years now. I am fascinated by it's history, it's landscapes, it's architecture and probably foremost it's wine and it's food. For Bert, though, this is a new revelation. Now we are going to explore it together, for the first time.
Ain't love grand.
In vino veritas
Translated, this means
'In Wine There Is Truth"
Stay tuned and feel free to follow along on Bert and Lou's Excellent Adventure!
*This blog entry is actually copied over from another blog I have just started at www.bertnlou.blogspot.com. My thought is to chronicle our 'excellent adventure' as we travel to Europe in the fall on the new blog so if you want to follow along, please check out the site.
I will probably put a few of my writings on this (www.ifmusicbethefoodoflife.blogspot.com) as well once we are back.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.