Today started the 10 day of the family away at Hawaii and of course first task on the morning at 5 am I lose the dog! That’s right he runs away…and one child is missing…I sit and think hmm it could be worse and as I start to list how that could be I come up with 0. One hour later of walking around the development at 6 am in the cold and dark the young chillins come back from the airport and one of the teenagers goes out to find the dog, who of course comes running back as soon as the youngster calls his name.

I must say that it is very pretty and sweet at 5 am all quiet and calm and spooky outside and a little cold.

Every time I am up and about at 5 am I am totally happy to be up that early it is a task to do it however I

am happy once I am up if it is fast you have the entire house to oneself & the kitchen & peppermint

mocha and if you step outside the air is still and cool and peaceful and sweet. I love outside & I love the morning…or I love the saying, “a shower and a shave…”

My favorite bodyguard and loyal man is “DON’T ydo” I have only known him to loyally succeed every time. He trys passionately intensely insanely to always protect I love “DON’T” ydo love love love

At the paintball near Riverview Florida. I am typing on the computer and Courtney is playing paintball, right now for some unknown reason she has to sit out for a little while I am curious as to why they have to come outside and sit. I would imagine it would be best if they could play all day on the course…

I hope Courtney hits every guy on the “none” team. We of course have the pink team.

The pink team is the best

It is a gorgeous day I am trying to remember day such as the one I am experiencing at Europe and I am having trouble the main reason is the only time I felt that way is at Switzerland. That country makes you feel that you are still at America. The 5 star dinners and the little bus system takes you into the city where there is little chalets that all look like swiss miss chocolate commericials yet it has an American feel to it.

The countryside and the city to see it is foreign yet strangely my spirit is comfortable there.

All the other cities and countrys of Europe there cool and exciting and fun and different yet you definitley feel like you are in a foreign land. All the time from the cafes to the cobblestoned streets

To the little benches at the Parks where you would imagine a bench is a bench yet the surroundings there foreign. Different plants different positions different smells different traffic. Weird

The way that people walk and talk is different. All of it. Very cool.

The Majulema is one of the strangest experiences I had starting at the docks of Genova Italy where I had walked to a big sailboat and the guy theres name was Carlos. I thought it was Carlos who was the captain of the Majulema yet when we finally got an English interperter we found that there were two Carlos’s.

When I found the right one Carlos picked me up at the train station and we drove to the far yacht club which at the time he said that it is the Italian harbor. He said that I could stay on the yacht for three days while they prepared the yacht for the owners of the chemical company Opera from Milan and his guests.

Then he left! I got the entire yacht which is a 27 meter motor yacht ready of the 3 of us and 4 guests, all the sheets, linens, china, dusting, washed all the decks, and while I cleaned the entire yacht on the three sunny gorgeous days I wore my red swimsuit! I had bought it at Miami and I washed the entire outside of the yacht at least 10 different times during the 3 days. I thought I could at least have a beautiful tan since the sailor outfits were basic run of the mill navy shorts and white shirts with the name of the yacht on them.

My hair at the time reached down below the middle of my back and had these golden highlights in it and I thought I looked pretty good! The 4^th day here comes Jean Claude Kuki the cook who only spoke Italian that is it, and Carlos who brought his son and wife with him. They helped me all around the yacht and that night they took me to dinner at this lovely restaurant on the coast of the water at Genova Italy. We sat on the enclosed terrace overlooking the sea and they ordered all these great pizzas for everybody. Each of us at our own pizzas and Carlos’s son Ivan drew me the loveliest picture of the Godfather’s son Micahel Corleone. I kept that picture on my mirror during the entire trip of the Majulema all 10 days I thought that was so sweet. I got very embarrassed at one course when they brought prawns with shells and tails and I ate the entire prawn and Carlos’s wife had to break apart the tail for me,

I didn’t know that you had to do that and she said that I reminded her of the mermaid at New York who tried to eat lobsters!!!!!

I it is the first time I had ever eaten a prawn and of course from that point on I ordered oysters and mussels all the time since they were relatively easy to eat, 0 tails and 0 shells!