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2020 Giving Back

We decided to make Christmas cards and little gift bags for a senior center. My little elf and I made 50 cards and gift bags. We made two different cards–one was a Christmas tree and the other was a stack of presents. I found a template online to make the Christmas tree and drew a

Love’s Seafood

Whenever we go back to Mobile, this is the first restaurant we hit up. It is fresh, inexpensive, and consistent. We get a cup of gumbo, shrimp fried rice, crab claws, and some fish/shrimp/oyster plates. During our most recent, week-long trip to Mobile, we went here three times.

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Quarantine Cooking Class

For my birthday this year, I got to do a virtual cooking class with Chef Daniel Boulud!! We have always wanted to go to his restaurant Daniel in NYC, but never got reservations the few times we were up there. Doing this cooking class made me want to go to his restaurant even more! Ben

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Lake Como/Lago di Como

We arrived in Milan in the evening after a nearly six-hour train ride from Naples Centrale with a stop in Rome to change trains. Because we were lax with our planning, we missed the local train to Como and had not arranged for a private car to take us to our hotel Borgo le Terrazze