Little Italy 25

[Rosa]

Greetings, Ciao , Welcome , Benvenuto

FrAnca sounds good hope your dh gets over jet lag fast as you guys wil be up and running.....i went to St Erasmo today and many places they have all just got on and re built walls and put tiles back on, apparently there is a missing sheep however and many of the agricultrual campi also at Cavallino are ruined....
Happy birthday Master Sputnik have a great day....

Hello, dh arrived at last, his flight from atlanta was 4 hrs late... At one point i doubted he'd arrive!
How are you all?
Yesterday we went on the trolley tour, i must admit i want on of those tiny wooden houses with the porch...

Hi little italy - hope you are all doing well. Using my internet connection for work overtime (unpaid of course).

Ds turned 6 a few weeks ago and we were graced by my dsil and her new partner (they flew over) and can I just say, he's the most fantastic guy and a big up to my sil's choice in guys.

We over in Italy over the summer and I'm very much hoping he'll come down to mil's place. She'd love him.

I'm trying to negotiate more hours with work. They want me full time but I want four days max as ds would have zero social life (talking play dates here for an only child). Will know in the next month. Yikes.

Hope your summer plans are sorted and all is good.

Hi giveitago, nice to see you again, good that in this day and age they want to offer you more work, generally they seem to be laying pesole off. Have a great summer and hope MIL is ok she was a bit pesante if I recall.

Franca great that Dh arrived ok, bet he is tired though. Hope you have a wonderful family holiday...
We have escaped to San Candido for 2 nights before the heat hits as its due to be horrible next week but we have too much on to be away....

Hi giveitagi, nice to see you again! I agree with rosa, it is good that you have been offered more hrs, but totally understandable that you want more time with ds. Have a lovely summer!!

Oh san candido is beautiful rosa, have a great time! We are in naples, tomorrow we are visiting sanibel.

Cycled 45 km with minirosa in tow... Was great loved every minute and was only a bit sore the day after, much less than expected, trying to get head round packing for mare but can't probably the fact its 33 degrees and every time I walk 10m I feel as if I have wet myknickers and no part of me doesn't sweat.. Well shouldn't complain its been late coming this year. Plus I love my A/C!
Franca we were at the Temple again, they are still so nice.
So where are you now??????
Gio great video of DS he looks as if he had a ball....
Sput how did the birthday go? All over the bugs now?

Very impressed cycling in the heat Rosa. I am totally fed up as have broken my
ankle on the bastard rome uneven pavements, have a massive cast on and it hit 36 degrees here today! Feeling very sorry for myself.

Oh no Gio you poor thing :( What a total pain.
Thanks for the birthday wishes for DS everyone, Zoomarine was great, a couple of things I think were sensory overload for him and we'll avoid next time but the rest was great. He loved the dolphins especially and saw them twice.
Very impressed with the cycling Rosa.

Oh no Gio....sue the commune, my MIL did when she broke her hip on the uneven pavement and got ?8000 compensation..... If she had been an actvive working / mum apparently they dish out more... Send dp out to take pic of uneven bit and find a lawyer. You poor thing how long do you have the cast on as you were/ are going to the Uk soon no?
Good about zoomarine , must give it a go sometime. We did sealife and dd1 loved it.
The cycle ride was a fair bit downhill with the odd little uphill bits , but tra montagne and streams it was very Julie Andrews.... I have a clip of video with dh coasting and dd1pedaling like mad so I wonder who did the majority of it?????

Oh no Gio, that is just horrible, and even more so at this time of the yr, when it is so hot. You poor thing, hope you get all the help you need.

Sput, happy to hear you all had a good time at zoomarine, accidentally my dc mentioned it yesterday, they want to go too!

Rosa, san candido is wonderful, i would love to back to the piccolo hotel.

We are in orlando (has to be one of the weirdest place i have ever been). Today we went to universal island of adventures, the harry potter bit is amazing!

Franca go to the outlets in Orlando you can clothe the dc for poco o niente for the next year. ( and you!!!!!)
Madonna che caldo - gio I feel for you will you be able to weight bare at all or is it crutches for 6 weeks?

Not sure yet Rosa. Go back on friday to have this medieval cast removed so will know more then. If they have to put one back on they will have to give me half an hour just to scratch!
Whats hp bit like franca, are the dcs loving it?

Rosa, I am afraid I won't be able to do the outlets as no one in my family likes shopping other than me, I am hoping to manage to negotiate to be left for 2 hrs and then picked up again...

Ok, so yesterday we arrived to the island of advenures at 9, when it opened and we went straight to the HP area, where we queued for the Forbidden Journey, basically you go into hogwarts, see a few rooms and then there is this ride, a simulation of riding the broom which is AMAZING. We all loved it.
Then we queued to get into Olivander's (mistake), but the children love their (overpriced) wands. We queued to go on the flight of the hippogriph, and after 40 bloody minutes the ride stopped. So we went to jurassic park. Then we queued again for another ride in the water, but again it stopped. I was pissed off.
We went back to HP and managed the hippogriff. We did spiderman (good), and then, as there was just a ten mins queue, I was brave enough to do the dragon challenge, a proper ride. It was just great.

So, the harry potter area is truly wonderful, but busy. The morale della storia is go in november or don't be tirchio and buy the bloody express pass.

Children loved it.

Gio how are you today? Thinking of you!

Hee did you do teh red dragon blue dragon ride at the far corner? I loved them !!!!
Yes Franca you MUST get dropped off or you will regret it ! Go to the ones that you can walk between , carry on dring up I Drive North there are 4 or 5 together Hillfinger and Reebok are to the right then you cross over and there are 2 small ish malls .
Don't go to the big shopping mall as its expensive and not outlet prices.
WHat happened in Starbucks???
I am glad you manged a few of the rides though and it sounds as if the dds enjyed it all...
You are not missing the heat here though its horrible.... I feel for you Gio I am sweating just walking as normal imagine if you had a plaster on as well......
Is there still the back to the future ride as that is brill? MInd you it sounds as if the queues were bad and think you are right NOvember is the time to go but now we have elementary school not sure how we wangle it ....Or pay for it to be honest ..!!!!!

Franca your DH definitely owes you some childcare while you do some shopping!
Gio I broke my ankle when I was a kid and I remember using a knitting needle (not the sharp end) for scratching.

Yes, I went on that one rosa, it was the first time on a big ride for me, I went on my own!
I didn't manage to go to the outlest, as yesterday we went to cape canaveral and it was pouring when we drove back.
Never mind, we are in nyc now... Hehehe this is where i will get my revenge (evil cackle)...
Nothing happened in starbucks, it is just evil!

Gio how are you doing today? It is bloody hot and humid here

Gio how did you get on with the plaster change, are you more mobile now?
Franca how hot is new york? We are at the beach since sat and dh has gone back home to work ( bugger) and will be back on rhrs, we were going to go for a walk this pm and its started raining ...better now than during the day!!!!!

got a brace thing now Rosa, much better as can remove it! and lighter, cooler etc. Leg is going in right direction but going to be a few weeks still on crutches...
How are you getting on Franca?

That's good news Gio.
It is too hot here, can't wait to escape.

Sput when are you heading to Croatia? Have you an itin decided? Gio has it stuffed uo your UK trip as you were going in July no? Just been to the hell hole of Luna park eaten alive by mozzies every year I say never again... But this time have promised they can come back with dh who will spoil them more than I do......

Still going rosa, next week and cant wait. Got a wheelchair and lift onto plane booked. Nothing is keeping me away from the prospect of 16 degrees and drizzle for a few weeks! Am very that mid july weather has arrived early this year!
When are you back from the beach Rosa?

Have another 3 weeks.. Then we are off to drizzle land as well..... Dd1 seems to have a slight tum upset...boh doesn't seem bad maybe she drank too much pool water!!!

Hello my dears, I am back to Italy, we arrived yesterday afternoon, our plane had a 5 hrs delay.

New York was great, as usual. The afternoon we arrived and the next was incredibly hot and humid, but there was a big storm in the evening that refreshed the weather and the next 2 days were sunny, but not stifling hot, just normal warm summer days.

So the trip went well andwe had lots of fun, but I have to say that I didn't get to do as much shopping as I wanted. Actually, I didn't mean to shop that much, but I was looking forward to spending 2 hrs in Barneys, dreaming I had the famous portafoglio di Onassis... but I didn't have the time. grrrr.

Gio glad to hear you will be able to go to the UK, I am sure it will be more bearable in the fresher weather!

Hope you are all well. x

Welcome back, glad you had a great time. What are the dc best moments? I think that sometimes what they pick up is different to what we think they enjoyed!
Good for dh wallet that you diddn't get to shop that much you might have done serious damage!!!!

Dd's favourite has been Universal Island of pleasure...
They both loved:
Key West little aquarium
Key west butterflies conservatory
Shelving on Naples' beach
Balto's statue in Central Park
A playground in Tribeca
The view from The Empire state building.

Ds also loved Nasa, knowing everything about the Statue of Liberty and immigration to the US (he wanted to go to a little museum nr chinatown where they show you how early xx century immigrants used to lived but we didn't find the time), the Natural History Museum.