Valentin!

 Way back in February of 2023, the Malbec crew was bopping around down in the Caribbean celebrating special anniversaries and birthdays. Ah, the night of the 5 cakes…

Anyway, we might this absolutely delightful young man named Valentin, who was a waiter in the Italian speciality restaurant called Sabatini’s. We, of course, won him over with our laugher, goofiness, and charm and we’d all yell and cheer for him when we saw him. We took a very cute picture with him before we all parted ways.

About a week ago, we were sitting in the dining room and Jason suddenly said, “Is that Valentin?” I followed his pointed finger to see and YES, IT WAS!

We called him over. I pulled up the picture to show him. He seemed so thrilled and said, “thank you for remembering me!”

Well, now we’re hanging out daily in the dining room and we were determined that we would recreate the photo- so we did last night. So much fun. He said he couldn’t wait to share it with his mom. He’s still a very sweet and kind young man with some big dreams to one day open his own little restaurant in his town in Romania. I bet he will!