ADF Week 4

This week was everyone's favorite dance company, Pilobolus. They were great, amazing, incredible, all the usual words that cannot suffice. While neither of us really appreciate the change in their choreographic focus over the years, we do still appreciate their art. We liked the short pieces and one intermission. We very much enjoyed it. Only 3 weeks left, but we love 2 of those companies and only 1 is new to us. So, we still have almost a month to look forward to.

It was very hot, but at last a night with no severe and flash flooding thunderstorms. It was 106 degrees F when we went in and 97 when we came out and when we got home after 10:30pm it was still 90. It has been a crazy hot summer here with lots of lightening-started fires which is really scary, but I guess the good news is the drought was broken.

We ate at Piazza Italia. It is in Brightleaf Square. We used to love going there to browse the boutiques and eat. Lately, there has not been much to tempt us. In the heat, we didn't enjoy strolling much either! There aren't many shops left and only one was open. We did stroll through Morgan Imports across the street though and we purchased a couple of kitchen gadgets. Anyway, we liked the meal and there were a lot of gelatos to choose from between the food places that are now left in Brightleaf. They make good gelato at Roma prices! It really hit the spot though. For dinner, I had gnocchi pomodoro and Clay had lasagna. My gnocchi was melt in your mouth! Clay liked his lasagna. We shared an order of fried ravioli as an appetizer. Clay had chocolate and peanut butter gelatos. I had green apple and cinnamon. Chocolate was our favorite and cinnamon our least favorite. We would probably go back. We think Piazza Italia is new. We don't remember seeing it last year. And they validate parking and give a 20% discount if you show them your tickets for that evening's performance. So, a deal too!