Sunday, June 23, 2002
Got back at around 9 or so last night, i think. it might have been earlier. Anywho, I have major jet lag, if you note the time on the blog... i woke up about 2 hours ago. What fun! So if anybody wants to hang out at 2 or 3 tomorrow morning, let me know, because I will probably already be awake.
My trip to Europe was great fun, but like I said earlier, I cannot even begin to outline all we did. It was all in all a great family vacation, with... whats the word... adventures. Many many adventures. The main ones were with my dad and sister. My dad got his wallet stolen on the subway in Rome, so we had to cancel all our credit cards, cash cards, atm, and EVERYTHING, which left us with pretty much no money except for any cash we kids or my mom was carrying. It took about 3 or 4 days to get a backup credit card from VISA. Imagine living in europe with no money and no way to pay the hotel you had been staying the past two nights... like I said, "adventures"
The other main one was my sisters medical 'issues'. She is usually a very healthy person, never really had any problems, but we found out she had an allergic reaction to amoxicillin or whatever its called. Well, it all started in an Italian town called Cinque Terra. (actually its a cluster of 5 towns, only one of them accessible by car, the rest by train or ferry) We were out swimming in the Mediterranian when she stepped on a sea urchin. Yes, one of those little things with all the spikes. She got about 2 dozen or so spikes stuck in her foot, embedded under her skin. We went to pisa right after that, so she saw a doctor and got a bunch of them out. Did you know that in Italy, all medical stuff is free? whether you need sea urching things removed, or a kidney transplant, i guess it is all free there. Anyway, you could imagine what that did to her ability to walk. Wile that was healing, we were in Germany a few days ago (it might have been Austria, there isnt really a border), and we went luging down a track. Its kinda like luging in the winter olympics only it has wheels instead of those ski things on the bottom... similar type of track though. But she fell. Pretty hard right onto the track. She got pretty beat up going god knows how many miles per hour. Thats not even it!!! She was taking amoxicillin (an antibiotic drug, pretty much) to keep her urchin stabs from getting infected, and we found out that she has an allergic reaction to it. Its pretty scary when your sister starts choking for no reason, and stops breathing when there isnt a doctor right there. We found one, even if we did have to barge into there house on their day off, but to make a long story short, an ambulance picked her up, and she had to stay the night in and Austrian hospital. can you say 'adventures'?
I am sorry to the people I e-mailed (you konw who you are) but I didnt have time to go to an internet cafe again... sorry bout that. I feel horrible :(
I just had a brainstorm though. I am going to find a map, and show you my trip on that, instead of writing. I think I do have a MSword copy of the itinereary if you are interested, however.