We spent the morning relaxing and looking out the window. I love watching the light on the lagoon, the gulls swooping around, and the drivers getting their boats ready for the day. We mostly just sat around talking about potential plans for the rest of the day.

Finally, the three of us left, stopped at Puppa for coffee and went to Vecia Cavana to make a reservation for lunch. Too bad–they are not serving outside at all so that was out.

We walked on Strada Nova and we bought some little granddaughter gifts at Pylones and I got some more Lush shampoo to bring home. I wanted to go to Vino Vero for lunch, so Ken and I went there to get a table while Donna went into the Ukrainian exhibit. It turned out Vino Vero was not opening for another half hour and Donna really wanted a proper lunch so we walked on towards the Guglie bridge and Trattoria Pontini where they were fully booked. I was feeling frustrated at this point so we started back and I remembered Santa Fosca was nearby so we stopped there and enjoyed cicchetti:

Ken got a really great salad there too.

We came back home. I completed the “sanitary control form” for our flight to Spain. Interesting–we didn’t have to upload a photo of our CDC cards as we did for Italy, we just had to put in the date of our last vaccine or booster. We rested a little and I got two great FaceTime calls from the kids and the grandgirls. Happy Mothers Day!

Next on the agenda was a date for wine with Elisa in our apartment. She came with a large platter of little squares of puff pastry with a dollop of intense tomato sauce on each one; she called them pizzette and Ken ate more than half of them. We drank some wine together and (mostly Elisa) talked. She joked about making a monologue. She is so smart and charming, it was a pleasure to spend the time with her.

After Elisa left, we got all of our leftovers out and had a feast together.

It’s really been great fun having Donna here, and we’re sad our time with her (and Venice) is ending !