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Made it!

Luckily my long 10 hour flight wasn't too bad. I didn't sleep the whole time but I did watch a few movies. I only got restless when we were about 3 hours away. That last stretch is hard. The guy I sat next to, Zach, was quite too and didn't bother me at all which was good so I could try to sleep but that didn't work out. My goal was to sleep in the airport in Turkey because I didn't on the plane at all so once I landed I looked for a deserted quiet spot in the airport to lay down and try to sleep. I didn't know what gate to go to yet either because they hadn't picked one yet and I had to wait 3 hours before they did. Sleeping in the airport is the worst but I made the best of it and soon enough I was back on a plane for another 2 hours.

Kyle got to take a half day of work today so he could pick me up. I got in at 12:45 so by the time he got me we still had a full day together which was really nice. It was beautiful out too! He had parked on base so we walked out to the front of the airport and he walked over to get his car while I waited with my luggage. One of my bags had a broken handle that must have happened in transit because it wasn't broken when I left NYC. My big suitcase, the handle wont come out all the way. Kyle said he would fix it when we got home.

Kyle's place was all nice and clean, not because he worked hard to clean it...but because Natalia had come earlier that day. I still can't get over that he has a housekeeper. Silly boy. It was so nice out and since it was still early for us we made a cheese and cracker plate and went and sat out on the balcony to enjoy the view. I love that. Sitting with a cheese plate and enjoying the outside. We used to do that in California in our gorgeous backyard and it was my favorite! 

For dinner Kyle put steaks on the BBQ and I wrapped up some onions and potatoes in foil to put on as well. The steaks were rubbed with a brown sugar and coffee grind rub that Kyle put together. He also bought us a bottle of wine from downstairs at the Italian market and he thought it was red but it ended up being white. So it was good that I sent him fake ice cubes shaped like gemstones for Easter! We put those in our wine to bling it out!

I was so tired that after dinner we started watching some TV and I fell asleep pretty fast.
♥ Mae
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Location: Pozzuoli Province of Naples, Italy

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