08/05/2026
It has taken me a few weeks to post about our summer vacation because I had way too many photos and memories to try to capture it one reel. 💗
🥹About a year ago I realized I will only have 1 maybe 2 summers left with Lydia and 3 maybe 4 with Elie. I asked Lydia✰ where she would go if she said she could go anywhere and she said Greece. I asked Elie the same question and she said Italy. My eyes were set on Croatia. I then found the perfect itenerary on a cruise ship that was practically new. (NCL Viva). Oh and it added Montenegro and Turkey too.
🤯Of course then my mind came in and said you can’t take 3 weeks off in the busy season of real estate, it’s way too expensive to afford and traveling aboard as 3 ladies (2 of them teens) is too risky BUT then my heart said we have to do it! When my heart said yes, circumstances aligned and it became very possible! ✨
And we did it! Some of my favorite moments were stepping into Venice at 1am right in front of the palace, going to the Vivaldi museum w Lydia, eating gluten and everything I haven’t allowed myself to in years, the girls smiles on the back of the speed boat in Croatia, Elie picking a random restaurant in Turkey and it being amazing and her noticing that Europeans take a lot longer to eat meals than we do, running into a guy we met several hours earlier and getting a private tour of the Basilica Cistern, and the excitement all 3 of us had when we realized our hotel in Turkey had a claw foot bathtub!
It was a lot of moving around, tours, history and hopefully a lifetime of memories.