La Dolce Vita

I don't know about you, but when our family goes on vacation we sniff out the food first thing. We look in the hotel books, ask the conceirge, and ask other hotel guests what's good around here and if you can flag down a local they always tell you the best spots. We have made such lasting memories on our hunt for food. We'll get together and say, "Remember the fun we had at La Cocita, or wasn't the squash stuffed ravioli out of this world at Trios."

There's something about sitting around the table, catching up, experiencing the cuisine that brings out the best in our family.

One of our favorite places to go everytime we are in Puerto Vallarta is an Italian place called La Dolce Vita (The sweet life). They have very good pizza and it is right across the street from the ocean. You can see them creating wonderful pies and smell them as they bake in the wood fired oven while looking out the open arched windows and see the tourists and locals bustling up and down the sidewalk. It is a very good place to watch the sunset and begin your vacation.

Look at everyone's faces. HAPPY, full of life, free to be themselves. No outside worries creeping in, no thoughts of what is going on back home. Just living in the moment, enjoying one another, creating an environment of laughter and fun.

If you haven't sat around the dinner table with the family in a while or gone out to lunch with a friend to catch up and have been to busy to really enjoy food and conversation, make the time in the near future. The simple act of sharing with someone else will only "sweeten your life."

What have been some of your food/vacation memories?