La Dolce Vita

My parents would "kidnap" us every Christmas Season and take us out do our Christmas shopping and to eat. I LOVED this tradition growing up! My dad had bank accounts open at Freedom Credit union in Provo for each of us boys (the same accounts are still open today). We would go to the credit union and each get out money for us to use to spend money on each other. Then we would go to a store and split up and all buy things for each other. The fun part was that we would need to hide the gifts from each other as we were walking around the store. If we found something that was more expensive than we could afford, then we would go to another brother and try to talk them into going in on the gift with us. The whole process was very fun.
One year we rode around the city (Provo) in a double decker bus (does anyone else remember this?). Many years we would eat at an Italian restaurant owned by a family from Napoli. The restaurant was called La Dolce Vita in Downtown Provo and I loved the food here. The only other restaurant I remember going to one of these outings was a restaurant in downtown provo that was "underground", we had to go down a level of steps to get to it and I think they had some fake, old fashoned looking cars in the restaurant that we could sit in. I thought it was really cool.