windy day

This morning we woke up earlier but day was windy ... umm ... we went down to the shore coffee place to make breakfast and decided to try to go sea but before we went take a look at the shops near the coffee place searching for a new cossie (swimmsuit) for me because the one I have has got broken :(
Inside the shop prices were discountend 50 per cent, searching a cossie in the middle of all cute ones is difficult but at last I find one blue whixh Momo says make be beautiful HAHA ok then we buy this one also the owner of the store makes us a big discount and Sampei also buy a t-shirt for himself.
Because of the strong wind on the shore we could not open our tent, sea is deliciously warm but sand is flying everywere, a sand castle is nice to make alltogather and after some splish splash in the sea is also a good idea.
For lunch time we reach the boss at the local restaurant on the beach were all the other collegues of Sampei are already sitting and chatting, Momochan want spaguetti with tomato, daddy spaguetti with shells and a pizza for me.
At 14.00 PM everybody has to go work, Momo and I cannot return to the beach because wind is still blowing hard so I profit of the situation to take Momo home and let her have a nap, I will have time to read my book and play with pc :)

shore

Although we wanted to awake early we arrive at the shore around 11.30 AM, we seat at the same shore restaurant as yesterday and we take coffee and "bombolone" YUM YUM for breakfast, Momo has a juice.
After breakfast we go on the shore to play and we open our Ikea tent.
At this point I have to say something on this tent: the tent is really comfy but just half, it opens in two seconds and it keeps you clean, you do not need to dirty your towel with sand and in case of babies they can rest in the shadow, the problem is you always get crazy to close it but I'll tell you later ...
Today Sampei has not day free, just morning until 14.00 PM so in the evening we would be alone and I would have close the tent.
At lunch time we decided to go to the same place we had lunch yesterday with the sandwiches we loved so much and Momo wanted to eat again fries and kebab :)
It is funny to see Momo and her dad togather, I took some fotos, in some of them Momo seems to tell some secrets to daddy (look here the foto up) in some other she is just laughing like crazy or making some funny face :)
After meal with sandwich Sampei payed and runned away, he had to go home before to have shower, change and after run to the restaurant to start work, luckily home is just 50 meters from the shore now so he made quick.
Momo and I went to the shore again until six, she made sand castles and bathed a lot, swimmed and jumped happily until I said it started to get windy and was freezing to swm in the water and ... what about an ice cream ? YESSSSSSSSSSSS she said so I started to pack our things but when I arrived to pack the tent I got crazy ! I tried more than 30 times after wich someone came in aid because I was going totally mad and started to be funny, I tried to follow the instruction but they were absolutely not clear, fortunately there was another man with a tent similar to mine who helped a lot but the result was that my tend after all my efforts before was totally dusted !!! AAAHHHH ! Well I would have thought afterwards home.
After the ice cream we went home, Momo sat on the sofa to look cartoons, I had to organize for dinner and make laundry also I wanted to give a wash at the tent so I opened it also it was not folded properly, I washed it carefoully and washed around the balcony but after that I couln't fold it to close it again so after burning from fury I left it simply on the big table I had cleaned. We made shower, I put Momo a fresh pijama and left her see cartoon while I prepared dinner, meanwhile I made laundry, after dinner I put Momo to bed with her milk bottle and I went to see a film on tv.

home for the vacation :)

This morning we awake in the house Sampei is dividing with 6 collegues, the house can be cute and has a nice panorama but is far from the shore I cannot reach by feet and most of all there is no space for us ! home is a total disaster, dirty, no space for our things, bathroom is empty no furniture just a plain sink and a horrible shower, no shelves nothing at all and absolutely no place where to sleep !
Sampei divides a room with a guy and they have two beds, there is no bed for Momo (but luckily I have her camp bed in the car) and no bed for me except the sofa which is not comfortable ! luckily boss calls to say if we want to change to a better home ... YUPPIIIIIIIIIIIIII !
Two girls have to come back Milano so there is a room free in a cute home just 50 meters from the shore, clean, furnished and with a room with private bathroom all for us, we can stay all three of us togather in a double bed :)
The house had three bedrooms each one with private bathroom, a livingroom with a big sofa and a little table, table to eat for 8 people and in front a small kitchen equipped with oven, big fridge, cooking top and dishwasher !!! it has a big terrace with sight on the shore, it is near the supermarket, we can go by feet. Before Momochan got chickenpox, boss had organized for us and Sampei to stay in this home, Sampei had sent me by cell phone a foto of the panorama by night, but as Momo got ill and we couldn't come, the thing went wrong and here came two girls of the staff so, when yesterday we arrived, we had to stay in another house that was absolutely not suitabole for us, really it was a nightmare ! I slept on the sofa without even blankets, went to take in the car the camp bed for Momo and gave her her blanket and pillow I had taken from home so that she could sleep weel then I put her bed near the sofa so as to hide me a little, as another guy had to sleep in the living room but not Sampei because he slept in another room he had from the start.
In this house there are girle and normally where there are girls houses are cleaner. I guess I could have stayed in the other if Momo would not have been with us, I really cannot permit a child like her to stay in a dirty place, with no fixed place to sleep and dirty ! In this second house we can manage like home in Milan, in the evning I can prepare her dinner with what we like we can buy at the supermarket, (there are also kids plates and tools here), I prepare her the table, she can sit meanwhile on the sofa and watch cartoons or use the small table to colour her books, we can eat confortably and after I can make her shower and put to bed, close the door like home and sit my turn on the sofa to watch a film, then go to sleep and wait for Sampei to come and sleep with us.
I can also make the laundries and put outside to dry without fearing they would dirty, this is a normal house but really for us here is a dream, house it also equipped with air conditioned in every room!
Momochan too is happy to stay here, she smiled and said us the house was wonderful, she is neither 4 year old but she is so intelligent and clearly sees the differences from a place to another and appreciates the good things. (In the foto here left Momo chan is coming out of our private bedroom while in the other she has fallen asleep after a hard day :)

arriving in Olbia :)

At 6.00 AM we have to get up, the loudspeakers inform the passengers we are now reaching the Olbia harbour so we have to hurry to wash and dress, take our things, go to make breakfast and reach the car. I guess we have slept just 4 or 5 hours but Momo seems awake enough and happy to be on holiday.
Ferry boat stops and loudspeakers tell now to reach the car inside the garage so we get down at the 3rd flood.
While we are going down, a sms arrives, daddy inform us he is already outside in a grey 4x4 car, and he communicate us the plate so we can recognize, Momo start jump happily :)
Car, busses and trucks are around 1000 so getting outside is hard and we need half an hour but at last we are out. Momo sees daddy and she runs towards him, daddy too as not slept too much so we agree as it is just 7.00 AM to take a coffee and after to go to the nearby supermarket where he says many products have a low price differently from Baja Sardinia where is has home. We need some veggies and drinkable yogurt for Momo for her breakfast. On the way daddy stops to make some fotos of a special stone (see foto).
At the supermarket is still early so as there is a car wash we give a wash at both cars so that they gleam in the sun.
At 8.30 AM we get into the store, we give a look around and take veggies and some more products then we get out and we direct to make gasoline: our car is nearly empty and daddy also has to fill the tank. In a short time we arrive at the restaurant were Sampei works, we had already seen it last year by foto but seeing it now live is another thing. At the moment the place is closed as it is monday and all the staff is on free day, daddy will have all day to stay with us so we can go seaside, Momochan wants to bath and make sand castles :)
We arrive at the temporary house and leave all our properties then take our sand items, towels and sun cream, jump again in the car and reach the shore. Momochan is no more afraid of water and starts to play and jump in the sea, water is warm and shallow, it is just 60 cm so she can play and swim easily :)
We have our Ikea tent and as we discover lately it has been a good idea, we have put all out bags inside and towels so that if Momo needs she can take a nap in the shadow.
For lunch time Sampei takes us at a small sandwich coffee place, where all his erstaurants collegues eat nearly every day. We order sandwich that we soon discover to be very good, for Momo we take a dish of turkey kebab meat and french fries and she is really good and finishes everything but she is really tired poor baby, she hasn't slept so much in the night, so just after the meal she simply slides on the chair and fall asleep, we quickly pay the bill and take Momo in our arms we direct to the shore and lay her inside the tent where she sleeps at least two hours :) Meanwhile on the beach arrives many sellers: ice cream man, black men selling glasses, bags, fresh dresses, everything you can imagine, same as it was when I was small and I went seaside with my mum in Sanremo :)
When Momo awakes she wants to bath, we stay on the shore to play and swim until 18.00 PM after that we pack all our things and go to the nearby ice cream shop where Momo orders a strawberry ice cream :)
Momo is still tired and poor baby and poor me we have to wait for dinner time because daddy's boss has organized a dinner in a nearby churrascaria with all his staff but dinner will start at 22.00 PM time in which Momo normally is already in bed ! We go home to have a shower and change dress and we go out again to take a look at the shops, here is nearly like Milano Montenapoleone, most of the stores are Valentino, Fred Perry, Missoni, Moschino, just rich people can buy here apart from a few normal shops which sell much chaper items displayed in the same elegant way :) We arrive at the restaurant, Momo is tired but she beahves well, she has discovered she can eat salami and ham, french fries and fried bananas, fried polenta, veggies and grilled meat ! she asks me to take a dish and she tells me what to put on it.
Dinner flows well brasilian between brasilian music and churrasco until we say goodby to everybody and we leave to take Momo to bed, tomorrow we want to go seaside again and build sand castles, sun bath and jump in the water again :)

travel to Sardegna :)

Today Momichan and I leave Milan to reach daddy in Sardinia :)
I have already prepared dress changes for Momi and me, pillows and blankets, base food (pasta, oil, vinegar, salt, bisquits and corn flakes, sponge and dish soap, a cleaner ...) and I have put them into the car, now we just have to finish the last things and we will be on the road :)
Momichan is happy to reach daddy she is not seeing since two months and also she is happy to go seaside even if she hasn't the slightest idea how Sardinia is, clear white sand on the shores, clear blue water, a special aroma in the air, rocks and plant visible only here and houses made in a particular way with stones, wood and natural colours so that they can be part of the panorama and not just something horrible to see :)
Anyway first place we see on the way is Pisa, I want to show Momichan the famous tower and present her one of my best friends who will wait us just under the tower :)
Pisa is nearly 300 km from home and just 20 km after we will be in Livorno where in the late evening we will take the ferry boat to reach Olbia in Sardinia where daddy will come to take us up.
After a pit stop for eating and coffee we finally reach Pisa, the Tower is easy to see just following the Center city directories we easily see the Miracoli Plaza where all the monuments are and in a few seconds we meet my friend, rReally is at leat four years we do not see, sometimes we send messagens by mail but the strange effect is that everytime we see is like if we have left the evening before and no time has passed by, he also has kids, two males much bigger than Momo.
We start to walk to see the Tower and the Dome, Momo is enchanted, we sit at a central cofee ice cream shop and Momi asks for a strawberry ice and I for a coffee, my friend instead asks for a big "affogato" and receives an enormous ice cream :) Momochan is a really good child, I always tell her if she ask for something to eat when she receives she has to eat all so she finishes all her ice cream :)
We give a look around, ther are many small markets selling post cards, bags, souvenir from Pisa, small Towers and much more, there are also many barouches, typical horse drawn carriages from the 18th century which now take tourists up and down the Miracoli Plaza but we do not have time today, we have to reach Livorno and my friend is waited home so he accompanies us until Livorno Harbour then we say goodbye and we direct towards the gate to get inside the ferry.
We have to wait a few hours as it is 19.30 and ferry will arrive only at 23.30 PM so we have time to eat, have a coffee, give a look around, draw with coloured pastels ...
Momo is really a good child, she jumps here and there, looks around, draws, laughs and finally
we see the ferry boat arrive, I have already told Momo about sleeping inside the big boat and she seems happy about.
As soon as we enter the boat we park, take our things for the night and we get up the stairs until 7th floor to ask for our cabin, is nearly midnight. Our cabin is small and in the interior side but seems clean and comfy, has a private bathroom with shower and we profit of the shower beacuse we are really tired and sweated but before going bed we want to take a look around and see if the next morning there will be breackfast or not. At the 8th floor there are games for kids and Momoochan amuses a lot then I take a coffee and she takes fotos, we are both tired now and is best to go sleep a few hours but unespectedly the sea is not calm at all and as I am sea sick I do not feel good at all while Momo is a little frightened because she thinks boat will crack and we will fall in the sea in the middle of sharks ! HAHAHA no Momo I tell her is impossible it can happen and finally the sea calms and we can sleep, tomorrow daddy will be at Olbia harbour and Momo wants to see him :)