wow.....how long has it been?
too long.
so today was the first day of our first port visit. where? Naples, Italy.

its freakin awesome.

but ill tell about that later.

to begin....the drive back to Norfolk was LONG. but i made it. that weekend i got a real bad sore throat....hurt a lot to swallow and stuff....and i felt like crap the whole weekend. i think i might have had strep. but i got over it, monday i dropped my truck off at long term parking....tuesday we left for Cruise 6-6-6.

that day was my last day of FSA duties....no more serving food! back to the OS life....crazy as usual. not even two days out shit hits the fan. people crackin. cheif wigging out. four days into the transit the email crashes; it doesnt get fixed until a week and a half later. i now have a collateral duty...charts. me and another OS are now in charge of all the chart corrections, updates, drawing tracks, courses.....the whole sheebang. its very exhausting, but it'll help my evals. lets see...i got major sea sick about a week out...that sucked. throwing up so bad i couldnt even keep water down for a minute there. so yea, but things are good now. i catagorized all my music on my computer....sweetness. cool stuff: saw some whales on the way to italy. that was cool. only all i saw was the tops of their blowholes....but still cool. something "one-in-a-million"...my boss brought a thing of peanuts on watch one day...and i happen to be on watch at the exact same moment...and while i was bored i happen to read the label on this can of peanuts....and the distributer was Aldi from Batavia, IL......i was like "holy shit no freakin way." i literally had to read it three times to be sure. what are the odds?!?!? i thought that was cool enough to share.

anyway, Naples.

me and two other buds went out into town today. we were walking around...looking at the sights...got lost of course....the uaual. it was cool. the president of Italy drove right past us, not more that 10 feet away that was pretty neat....people here drive like maniacs....streets are narrow and people walking is of abundance...we stopped for some ice cream, and damn is it sweet! very very good...so all in all a very kick ass place. i signed up for a tour of Rome for friday. looking forward to that. basically this port is going to be top notch. cant wait to get out in town again and check out the bar scene haha...

thats about all i got now.
tired and ready for sleep.......until next time..................