Well, we are leaving today. It doesn’t seem real yet. As a bonus I got Legionnaires disease a day ago. It is probably just a cold, but I’m suspicious of the air in this hotel. Last night was the last night on the awful bed here. It ranked up in the top 5 worst beds ever. To make it even worse, there is a Westin right across from our room. Its red WESTIN sign taunts me each day because I know they have the “heavenly beds” over there. But, our room had a washer and dryer and that came in handy with a baby. Of course, the dryer died last night when I was doing the last load of diapers. I think they just stole one out of another room and traded. Our toilet broke one day when we were here, too. Yep, I am ready to leave!
Of course, flying with a cold is never fun. I hope lil’ G sleeps a lot and I hope they move us to the bulkhead seat, even though they seem adamant about not giving it to us. Air Canada – weeeeee!
Right now I am just waiting for Sammi to wake up from her nap. Then I can take apart her port-a-crib and we can go buy some water to take with us. Plus, we have about $100 in coins so I want to go to the bank and trade it in for bills. 2 o’clock will be here soon and it seems like we still have a lot to do! Wish us luck and I’ll be back as soon as we get the net connected at the house!
Buona giornata!!
Monday, July 10, 2006
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Saying goodbye!
Oh, I forgot to tell you. When we were at the vet we also had Sammi with us. Some lady came in and was looking at her and I said, “Yea, we had to bring her in for her rabies shot.” (haha) The lady looked at me, looked back at Sammi, a look of horror crossed her face and then she said, “You are joking, aren’t you?” Geesh, no, I’m really taking my baby to the VET to get her shots.
I can’t believe we leave in only 54 hours. We mailed a big box of stuff yesterday because we are already going to be the crazy luggage people in the airport. 2 big bags, a big trunk, a port-a-crib, a cat cage, a car seat and baby, two carry on suitcases, a laptop, and a stuffed diaper bag. We are worried we won’t be able to rent a car big enough for all the junk once we get there.
Now, we are just saying goodbye to everyone. It is weird that we are really leaving. I had lunch the other day with my friend Allisen. We met through the LLL and all my favorite baby things she told me about. Her little girl is about a year and half old so they know the current stuff, unlike our other friends who all had kids between 9 and 20 years ago. She told me about the my brest friend nursing pillow and that thing is awesome. She also told me about the bumbo chair which is also pretty cool. On the one hand it is too bad we are leaving because we are just new friends but I think we could have a lot of fun together.
On Sunday I think we are meeting one last time with some of our other friends. Everyone wants to go out to dinner. We met Dan and Lynn at the Mess last night and had a small altercation. There is a family area and a bar area in there and since we had Sammi we, of course, were going to sit in the family area. However, you have to get the parking pass in the bar area. I was in the washroom and Jack had Sammi. They had just walked in to get a parking pass with Dan and some old geezer guy comes up and says, “No underage kids allowed in the bar area. You have to leave with her.” Like she was going to drink up all his beer or something. Well, it just went on from there. The old guy just wouldn’t let it go. It was kind of insane. If he had let them get the parking pass it would have taken about a minute. I hope I’m not a cranky old rule-monger when I’m a geezer. I want to be a fun geezer, not a mean one.
I can’t believe we leave in only 54 hours. We mailed a big box of stuff yesterday because we are already going to be the crazy luggage people in the airport. 2 big bags, a big trunk, a port-a-crib, a cat cage, a car seat and baby, two carry on suitcases, a laptop, and a stuffed diaper bag. We are worried we won’t be able to rent a car big enough for all the junk once we get there.
Now, we are just saying goodbye to everyone. It is weird that we are really leaving. I had lunch the other day with my friend Allisen. We met through the LLL and all my favorite baby things she told me about. Her little girl is about a year and half old so they know the current stuff, unlike our other friends who all had kids between 9 and 20 years ago. She told me about the my brest friend nursing pillow and that thing is awesome. She also told me about the bumbo chair which is also pretty cool. On the one hand it is too bad we are leaving because we are just new friends but I think we could have a lot of fun together.
On Sunday I think we are meeting one last time with some of our other friends. Everyone wants to go out to dinner. We met Dan and Lynn at the Mess last night and had a small altercation. There is a family area and a bar area in there and since we had Sammi we, of course, were going to sit in the family area. However, you have to get the parking pass in the bar area. I was in the washroom and Jack had Sammi. They had just walked in to get a parking pass with Dan and some old geezer guy comes up and says, “No underage kids allowed in the bar area. You have to leave with her.” Like she was going to drink up all his beer or something. Well, it just went on from there. The old guy just wouldn’t let it go. It was kind of insane. If he had let them get the parking pass it would have taken about a minute. I hope I’m not a cranky old rule-monger when I’m a geezer. I want to be a fun geezer, not a mean one.
Monday, July 03, 2006
The Last Week
Friday was the last day we had a car, so we did all of our running around getting ready. We sold the pickup and we gave the station wagon we were borrowing back last week. So, this last week we have had a rental car. It is a PT Cruiser. The good thing about all this is it lets us know what we don’t want. I wouldn’t buy a PT Cruiser anyway because it is a Chrysler – but after driving it we discovered it is made for midgets. My Mom always wanted one, and she is short so she might like it. We also discovered we don’t want a Saturn (that was the station wagon we borrowed.) What a P.O.C-ola! Once we get over there we have a Fiat that we bought from the guy coming back to Canada.
We had to take Conan to the vet to get his health certificate. He is still doing fine so he ought to make the flight ok. We got our Italian Visas back and that was really the last thing we were waiting on. Little Sammi has more passports than anyone I know. She has her US passport, her Canadian passport, and now her official green Canadian passport. She will be a well-travelled little kid when we get back.
Yesterday was Canada Day so we had some people over to celebrate. They were all surprised that we are “kicking it old school” with cloth diapers. And it really freaks people out when we use the spray bottle of olive oil on her. So far that is turning out to be a really great and cheap diaper cream!
Our hotel is in the perfect location. We could hang out here then go walk around and enjoy the festivities. The weather was actually really nice all day until right when they were doing the fireworks, then it started to rain. Sammi was asleep so I didn’t go out to watch them anyway. Too bad they won’t have any on Tuesday for the 4th. At least next year I’ll get to have the 4th of July because of all the Americans over in Naples.
Tomorrow we are supposed to go to a pool party/BBQ so that means I have to go try to find a swimsuit today. We went swimming in the hotel pool last week and I learned that one shouldn’t wear their pre-pregnancy swimsuit after they have the baby. It fits, but you will remember that I now have these gigantor boobs and I’m not comfortable with a D-cup in a B-cup suit! It’s just not the look I am going for now – even though the boys like it.
OK, I found a suit. Wow, your options are really cut down when you enter the D-cup suit section. There were like 3 suits to choose from. At least one of them was good enough to go ahead and buy, and as a bonus all swimwear was 40% off!
When we were walking over to the mall a group of people walked by and one young guy said, “OMG! That is the cutest baby I’ve seen in my entire life!” She was pretty cute, all happy in her sling, wearing her little sunglasses. She’s the good trick baby that tricks you into having another one who turns out to be the demon child with colic.
We had to take Conan to the vet to get his health certificate. He is still doing fine so he ought to make the flight ok. We got our Italian Visas back and that was really the last thing we were waiting on. Little Sammi has more passports than anyone I know. She has her US passport, her Canadian passport, and now her official green Canadian passport. She will be a well-travelled little kid when we get back.
Yesterday was Canada Day so we had some people over to celebrate. They were all surprised that we are “kicking it old school” with cloth diapers. And it really freaks people out when we use the spray bottle of olive oil on her. So far that is turning out to be a really great and cheap diaper cream!
Our hotel is in the perfect location. We could hang out here then go walk around and enjoy the festivities. The weather was actually really nice all day until right when they were doing the fireworks, then it started to rain. Sammi was asleep so I didn’t go out to watch them anyway. Too bad they won’t have any on Tuesday for the 4th. At least next year I’ll get to have the 4th of July because of all the Americans over in Naples.
Tomorrow we are supposed to go to a pool party/BBQ so that means I have to go try to find a swimsuit today. We went swimming in the hotel pool last week and I learned that one shouldn’t wear their pre-pregnancy swimsuit after they have the baby. It fits, but you will remember that I now have these gigantor boobs and I’m not comfortable with a D-cup in a B-cup suit! It’s just not the look I am going for now – even though the boys like it.
OK, I found a suit. Wow, your options are really cut down when you enter the D-cup suit section. There were like 3 suits to choose from. At least one of them was good enough to go ahead and buy, and as a bonus all swimwear was 40% off!
When we were walking over to the mall a group of people walked by and one young guy said, “OMG! That is the cutest baby I’ve seen in my entire life!” She was pretty cute, all happy in her sling, wearing her little sunglasses. She’s the good trick baby that tricks you into having another one who turns out to be the demon child with colic.
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