After dropping off my Mom and Grams at the airport, Nick and I took advantage of already being downtown to stop at the Miracle Mile Shops to pick up the 2012 Swarovski snowflake ornament (an annual tradition of ours).  While we were walking around the mall, we worked up an appetite and decided to stop at a little Italian place called Lombardi’s Romagna Mia.

Nick chose the whole wheat spaghetti bolognese and I had the ricotta gnocchi with baby arugula and a tomato mascarpone with white wine sauce. Both our meals were really tasty and very reasonably priced for a restaurant on the strip.