05/24/2024
By Kate Stone Lombardi
Traditionally, the gift for a couple celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary is rubies. (Yeah, that reference may be a bit dated.)
We marked that milestone last year, but with looking for a new house and packing up the old one, we decided to push off the celebration until now.
We are of the less-stuff-but-more-experiences school of gifting at this point in our lives. So we set off for a one week trip to Barcelona.
Usually, are vacations are of the National Park variety, and we both really love those. But it was also great to be in a European city, soaking up the culture and the history.
And guess what. It turns out we did celebrate with rubies. We visited Gaudi’s famous cathedral, La Sagrada Familia, in the late afternoon.
The sun hit the red and gold stained windows at just the right time, and voila – rubies!
