I have to share my sense of accomplishment and success, having completed all in calm and cool fashion a full day trip back from the island of Sardinia all the way back home to my mom. May I point out that I had to travel from the village we were in to the main port - Olbia and from the port of Civitavecchia to Rome, on highways that I had never covered before. And may I add that some of the roads were traveled in the middle of the night.
We came back all in one piece and had a great time together. OK: Italy sucked. Real bad this time. I heard on the radio this was the worst performance in half a century. The way I see it sometimes you win sometimes you loose, right? Michele spent time watching the game from one of the decks, while the kids and myself stayed in our room. When Michele came back he said he had never heard so many swear words in his life. He was not sure it was actually legal to scream and act that way in public! (I do not think it is, but people were justifiably upset, to say the least. And there was no actual violence!)
Marco and Sara enjoyed themselves quite nicely in the room. Though small and the trip being long, the sharing of that long trip to be together forced them to bond in quite a nice way. Marco learned (or was literally forced) to actually memorize the names of all these different actors and actresses that 11-year-old girls in Italy go crazy for, as Sara was sharing the pages with him.
The bonding of the cousins has become, and so has the speaking of Italian. Practice makes perfect, and needed practice to survive and thrive amongst young people in order to remain the cool dude, is quite important. I just make the kids stay in the right company and do the right things. Family and friends will do the rest.
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