Ciao!

     I read somewhere that when in new surroundings that it is best to take time to 'soak everything in' around you.  I think this might be my motto for this Italian adventure.
     This was my first experience flying in Executive/First class.  It is something I could definitely get used to!  Eat, sleep, watch a movie, eat, watch a movie, eat, enjoy the massage feature of the seat, eat, sleep..you get the picture. Wow!  No complaints here...

    So, that was all the way from Seattle to Frankfurt, Germany.  As soon as we got to Germany, we learned that many Lufthansa (the airline working with Air Canada-our original airline) crew members were on strike.  That caused our flight, along with 899 other flights, to be cancelled indefinitely.  Yikes!!  I always wanted to take my family to Germany and stay a while but not at the airport! haha  Anyway, an extremely creative and kind Lufthansa clerk helped find flights for us to make it to Naples-8hrs later than our original flight, but we made it!  You know those news stories about people sleeping at airports for hours on end? Well, we were some of those people last week.  In fact, I think we actually did make it in some Germany news footage-there were camera men and reporters right near us at one point...ugh..
     We flew from Germany to Milan and then Milan to Naples. Definitely not ideal but we were so grateful to get to our destination.  Once in Naples, we had to take 2 taxis (do you see all that luggage we brought?!What were we thinking? haha).  The taxi ride to get to our hotel was more exciting than any theme park ride we had ever been on. Just ask Race about it!