Engagement Dinner Memories!

So we finally got everybody together for the official "meet and greet" of the families! We all went down to Papadakis Taverna in San Pedro for a whole lot of Greek food and great entertainment! Papadakis is known for its Greek dancing, plate throwing and glass breaking. The belly dancer that came through the dining room accepting tips made for some really great photos! One of their servers had such an amazing opera style voice and they have a resident tap dancer extraordinaire to keep you entertained throughout the evening.

Between the cheese and olive platters, the Tiropita and Spanakopita, the pickled octopus and the stuffed grape leaves, we were all feeling a little stuffed ourselves! And then the server wanted to take our order! Ha! Needless to say, there were quite a few take home boxes that evening. And then came dessert. Let me start off describing the reaction to the beautifully displayed dessert tray that had been brought to the table. No one was hungry. The restaurant had already very kindly brought out a 3 inch cube of carrot cake for Nickos and my engagement that had already made it around the entire table once before the dessert tray had been shown. No one was hungry. Nick then asks the kind gentleman serving us if he would bring out a small sampling of the desserts on the tray.... Before I can even begin to object, the man jets off to the kitchen and leaves me looking at Nick like he's lost his mind. Nick continues to assure me that he asked for "a small sampling of the desserts for everyone to enjoy." To this, I continuously reply that he just ordered a whole piece of everything on that tray. Nick denies this... adamantly. So, when the nice gentleman brings out 2 (yes, 2!) very large trays of desserts for everyone, none of us can believe our eyes. And still, none of us are hungry! So after we eat what we can force on top of the wonderful meals we had already eaten, more to-go boxes were added to everyone's stacks! The food was so good. It was probably too good. We were stuffed.

Thank you again, Dioni. Thank you for everything. You're amazing.

Love always,
Nick and Nikki