Bicycles and Raluca

Today in Lucca we talked Don into riding a 4 person bicycle.  What fun....I was in charge of driving....just what I like.  The bicycles all have bell's that you can ring when someone is getting in your way.  Sooooo you know how much I love being "child like".  So I was ringing at everyone.  Very fun.  We laughed the whole way.  Then Raluca, Rachel's friend, met us for lunch and walking through the streets of Lucca.  Raluca is wonderful.  She is Romanian by birth, but now lives and works in Florence.   We all went to lunch at a wonderful place in the amphateater.  Don and I shared a wonderful lasgna bolagnese that was out of this world.  The pasta was so thin and the sauce so light. I will have to try my hand at it when I get home.  Then we went to the Palazzo Pfanner.  Beautiful palace with wonderful gardens.  Now we hurry home to shower and change and off to dinner we go with Linda to Anna's and Fiorenzo's home again for dinner.  Rachel and Raluca will share a meal before she has to head for home.  Florence is a one hour drive from Lucca.  I hope to meet her again someday.  She was a delight and I enjoyed the little time we spent together. It only makes me want to spend more time with her.