Saturday, October 4th – Today Mike was off to the boat show for work and I took the kids to board the huge “pirate ship” AKA “the Neptune” that is right in front of us. It was okay until my son somehow managed to run, trip, and fall and get his arm wedged into a…

Safe and sound in Genova, Italy and staying on a boat right beside the biggest aquarium in Europe and behind a pirate ship we are seriously considering boarding and taking out to sea while here. We met Mikael (our wonderful host) at the marina and he showed us to his sail boat. It was just…

France (Marseille > Nice) > Monte Carlo > (Ventigmilla > Genova) Italy Well to say that our trip from Marseille to Genova was a bit of an adventure would be an understatement. Where shall we begin, ah yes the 0430 (Mommy), 0500 (Daddy), 0515 (Sienna), 0545 (Mylan…dragged from bed like an angry bear cub) wake-up…

After we had a “taste” of Provence from the day before and saw all the great things in the tourist brochures that we could do and pay an arm and a leg for, we decided to do it our way. We high lighted all of the featured places to see, rented a car from Marseille’s…

Well…once again, we managed to wear the little ones out today, but unfortunately it backfired and we ended up doing the same to ourselves. The day started with a great plan, funny how we as humans do that isn’t it? Plan… When I was bartending several years ago, a rabbi walked into my bar (no…