Hair Gel

Dropped Maria off at the airport today, she's headed for some training in Minnesota. Driving up to the airport there are electronic boards flashing to put hair gel and other liquids in you check in luggage. They also suggested being 3 hours early for the flight to get through check-in (she got through in 10 minutes).

Makes me wonder what things will be like in April, when we have to go international!

Well too early to be too worried about terror alerts right now, we'll have to see how the world is behaving in the Spring.

We still have lots to do in preparation to fly to Italy - passports is one of them. Our first passports were for our trip to New Zealand and Australia (1988), and then we used them for our trip to the UK in 1998. It appears every 10 years (give or take a year) we do a big flying thing. Actually this will be my mother's third flight, apparently she only flies international!

Then there are other decisions to make - what do we do when we arrive in Rome, what do we do on the shore excursions at the ports of call:

Naples, Italy - options: Amalfi Coast, Pompei, Sorrento etc.,

Rhodes, Greece -

Izmir, Turkey

Instanbul, Turkey - options Hagia Sophia, Bazaars etc.,

Athens, Greece - The Acropolis for sure!

Kakatalon, Greece - birthplace of the Olympics

Livorno, Italy - FLorence, Pisa, Tuscany etc.,

Hagia Sophia and Acropolis: