First Three Days!
It’s always such a strange and surreal feeling to be
transported to a whole new world. Sleep on the plane flying over North America
and end up in Italy somehow.
We are on the Norwegian Jade and I can’t believe this is
home for the next 13 days.
We had half a day of the ship yesterday and then we did
Naples Italy day 1. We went to the beautiful Sorrento and also Pompeii which were
both really really beautiful .Day 2 was Sicily and visited Taormina all afternoon
dn then came back and did the church and plaza at Messina.
After a couple of very cold and today very pouring rainy
day it was nice to come back to an hour of sun at the pool and all fall asleep
reading in the lawn chairs.
I post this only
now (that I am better) so that I don’t worry my Mom and kids at home. Let’s
just say that the first two days were hard!!! My ankle was actually quite sprained
after all L(On
the plane it really swell up and I could barely walk off the plane. I did nonetheless
and was in tons of pain. By the time I got top the cruise I was burnt and in
pain. I could not even visit and tour the cruise. So we rented a wheelchair for
that day which was horrible. Then for
Sorrento and Pompai we rented a cane that I used all day. By day 3 progressively
better from lots of pain and immobility to just milder discomfort and no high
heel wearing (somehow it’s not much fun to wear running shoes with a dress for
dinner).
Anyways a whole other post on this another time as I want
it to be a distant memory now that it is on the mend. I have never been so
scared in my life thinking that I had ruined the whole trip. Hubby and daughter
were not very impressed with me either.(a whole other story all together!)
Great
moments so far:
Smooth uneventful flight
No jet lag as slept on plane
Good food on Norwegian
Love the outside eating quarters for breakfast and dinner
Hubby in the middle of Beauty and I always with his arms
around our shoulders and our around his waist walking with us
Beauty talking a lot and all the time
Beauty telling me her life story and life sorry of her 25
BFF’s all day
The Jacuzzi
Our balcony
Waking up to Hubby and Beauty in the tiny tiny tiny
little room share we all pretty much sleep in the two beds pushed together
Beauty to using free wifi in a café because she Said she
is on holidays and too addictive. That’s my girl! for my ankle
Cane for my ankle
Volatsarin for my ankle
Ice for my ankle
Watching Beauty dress up so lovely for dinner
Cuddling Beauty in bed in morning
Sleeping. Love it so much
Morning and looking out doors and being in new country,
island or cities
The pink sunsets
Black sweater I bought in Sorrento. Love it
Finding the beige Benetton sweater I want them to buy me
for Mother’s Day
Dominic our taxi driver in Sicily and Hubby saying to
him”you look better in the picture with my girls!” and him same “Ya I know!”
The plaza and waiting for the bells to ring and lying on the
park bench in the only sun of that day
Finding non-alcoholic beer anywhere is a total win. Having
someone serve it and not saying something stupid
Beauty managing her own photo shoot on the red carpet
Seeing how polite Beauty is with strangers
Beauty thinking all babies, Grampas and animals are
“adorable”
All being in bed all three in same bed before we fall
asleep and listening to Beauty’s funny stories (I went up to the room to get
your robes and stared at myself in the mirror and forgot to get them!)
Getting to know our daughter in a way I never have before
(especially as a third child!)
The Harder
moments
Not being able to walk for two days!
My husband having traumatic memories and anger of his mom
being in a wheelchair all his life while pushing me!
Seeing hubby struggle to not drink alcohol and be around
alcohol at literally every turnL(
(he quit recently for health reasons)
Comparing Norwegian to Royal Caribbean constantly (much
less luxurious)
Feeling sick at dinner from rocking of boat
Beauty talking all day and never being quiet (hey did I
just write that????)
Beauty dancing all the time and doing gymnastics in the
tiny tiny tiny room. As in lift her leg and it hit me in the head.
Feeling frumpy (usually I feel somewhat pretty and
stylish) not anymore compared to my ultra slim and ultra-stylish tween daughter
The weather. I would say so far colder than Canada. Has
to get better
Never having husband with me. He is always with our
daughter!!!! We have had not one single private conversation
Overall??? Great start to trip!!! Love Europe especially now
that I can walk again and my husband has forgiven me for traumatizing him and
my daughter and almost ruining the trip. It always takes us a few days to get
into the trip…..into a routine. Tonight I felt that we are getting into one.
Hi boys and Didi!!! Miss you and Love you!!!
xoxoxoxoxoxox
