Day 14 - Last Day - Onboard the ship We occupied ourselves with doing what we liked all day.Jim read in the sun a little, I did a lot of picture sorting (we had a "best-of" picture show at the end of the day). The boys ran around the ship, watching a movie and playing video games at Club HAL (they finally made it through all the levels of the Star Wars game). Sally and I stopped in for High Tea, and went to a lecture on olive oil (no tasting though ).W...

Impressions of Venice: Sally - Impressed by everything being done by water - trash barges, firetruck barges, suitcase barges, ambulance boats, police boats, dirt/construction boats…And the opera house "La Fenice" - magnifico Pat - the HEAT. It really was HOT - as in, sit-in-the-shade-and-drip hot. Jim - The alleyways -some narrow, some wide, always meandering, the plazas… and that water is the means of transport for everything - everyone is eithe...

Day 1 - In Transit Three days just isn't much time to regroup, and repack, especially when you've been on island time for the past week and a half. We managed to get ourselves ready in spite of having half a day less than we thought - I had written on the calendar a noonish departure, but when I checked in for the flight, I realized we left at 6am (meaning a 4am cab ride to the airport). The kids are really good airplane travelers (early conditioning has paid o...