I dont think I am supposed to be letting on that I whizzed off on holidays in the middle of my busy period but WHAT THE HECK! Its one of the benefits of being your own boss. So thats why I didnt give you an update for the last 2 weeks! I was on a cruise ship sailing around Greece with MSC Cruises.. best holidays ever! If you fall into any of the catagories:
1) Couple with kids (of any age (the kids that is!)
2) OAPs
3) Babies
Then this cruise is for you! The only people who would not like it, is young professional with no kids who dont enjoy singing YMCA (or in our case.. staring at amazment as 200 totally sober adults sing it!) The funny thing about the cruise is that even if it isnt all your cup of tea.. the people watching is fantastic! Like the eldery couple from Australia.. “rememeber our cruise in 1952 dear.. we ate cheese cake on the tues that was just as good as this cheese cake!” or the adult twins from Napoli who wore matching luminous binkinis the entire week!
And of course.. no holiday is complete with DH being SICK AGAIN! (seriously.. he gets sick every time he is with me.. I am getting worried!). But the cruise ship had several gorgeous doctors from Latvia serving in the mini medical hospital (honestly.. the ship hospital has more facilties than the Blackrock clinic.. no joke!) so he happily spent several appointments there and was right as rain in a couple of days. And true to form, despite having a fever of 39.5C he didnt miss a meal, and still managed to knock back a bottle of wine each evening!!
DD2 was the belle of the ball! The girls wore matching Benetton dresses to the captains dinner and the little one waved like the queen in a parade at everyone!
AND she SLEPT! That was the best part of the holiday.. I think a combination of only going to bed at 11pm each night and being fed breast milk that had the contents of half a bottle of wine in it and a couple of cocktails did her the world of good because she slept in her travel cot the WHOLE night, EVERY NIGHT for 7 nights. A miracle!
DD1 lived in the kids club which was open till 11.30pm each night with a kids disco and all. We had to drag her off to bed as we were wrecked by 11 but she wanted to stay up and party. I am already getting worried for her teenage years!
And as for me!.. well I am so rested and relaxed. The first holiday since my honeymoon where someone else made my bed. I am so grateful.

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