Gelato, Cappucino, Minestrone, Gondolas...

3:15AM

...and other things.

Yep, looks like my parents are shortly going to be off on their wonderful holiday to Italy, and I'm sure will have a lovely time :-). For my part, I'm sitting here trying to keep my room cool (actually getting it cool in the first place might be a good start), and wishing I'd put my coca cola in the fridge earlier so I could have a nice cold drink of it now.

Come to think of it, Ice cubes are an age old invention... Hmm...

3:24AM

Having returned, in true "me" fashion with both a hot drink, and a nice cold drink of terminally one dimensional coca cola (with half an ice cube tray inserted), I seem to be doing not-much other than wandering round trying not to get in the way, and alternately wishing my parents would sod off so I could have a bit of peace, and chatting to them because I'm already beginning to miss them, when they haven't even gone yet.

It's odd that even as the world sleeps, the moon is high above, and the stars are out twinkling in their twinkly nuclear fusion type way, it feels many hours later than it is, with an otherwise quiet early morning punctuated by the sound of hair dryers, the smell of perfume, and endless questions about the location of things.

I've fixed the "lake garda" tags to the suitcases, helpfully removing last year's "paris" ones.
It was a close thing :-).

With 15 minutes to go, amid complaints of "this should have been done bloody ages ago", courtesy of my dad, who has ordered the taxi for actually about the same time as last year, which is still earlier than it needs to be, for some reason.

Tension is beginning to increase a little as all the final preperations are being made, with 10 minutes to go everything is just about sorted, and the taxi should be on his way :-).

I've asked my parents to bring me another little "baby alcohol" (small bottles of alcohol! Not alcohol for babies!!) tub/collection/thingiewhatsit, so I can do my alcoholic advent calendar type thing again this christmas :-).

04:04: and now I'm off to escort my parents away :-). Not all the way to Italy, sadly :-(.

And off they go. They're gone now, and I'm already feeling quite lonely :-(.

Still, time for a cold drink and stuff I guess. Then a nice shower, and time to make my bed and go to spleep :-).