Gearing Up for the Cruise

We're fixing to take a transatlantic cruise at the end of the month. It starts in Rome, where we'll spend an extra four days. Then to Spain, the Canary Islands, St Marten and Ft Lauderdale.

We made the plans for this trip before the gluten allergy diagnosis, before my peanut/cashew allergy onset so hard. Bef0re S knew it was the dairy that made her almost deaf because her ears were so stopped up.

For me, the hardest part will be small meals every two hours, rather than gorging at the buffet, but for S, going to Italy and facing no pasta, no pizza, and very little cheese is depressing.

So what do we do? We get the Google Fu on. There's a gluten free restaurant in Rome. The cruise folks and the airline folks are now laying in GF foods for Shawn. We're finding little cards to present to restaurants in Italian and Spanish, and we've been upgraded (on the cheap) to a suite on the boat, where we'll have a fridge and a microwave, so we can lay in supplies like soy milk and instant grits.

We'll keep y'all posted!