Sadly, she only appears on this trip. Other, non-Claire related highlights include Jackie Goldschneider chugging a Guinness so fast that, around her, time stood still, Jenn Fessler eating it on some cobblestones to uproarious laughter, and sisters-in-law Teresa and Melissa holding hands and screeching at an identical pitch as they jumped into an “Irish spa” mud pit.
They’ve given up on having a relationship, but as Caroline Manzo declared back in Melissa’s debut season: they are the same person.
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There can only be one Punta Princess, as Kathy Wakile points out, but both Teresa and her sister-in-law Melissa Gorga want the title. An argument could be made that Melissa deserves the crown solely for the way she hung her head out the airport van window and hollered at the men who, having just landed in the country were now peeing on the side of the highway, “Have some claaaaaaaass!” On the first day’s boat trip, Melissa and Teresa, and their respective Joes, have a tense pose-off in their bikinis.
Poor Albert Manzo. Any travel agent can tell you, there is a difference between a trip and a vacation and Albert is not on a vacation. Despite his wife Caroline assuring him it would be just the two of them, here he is escorting her elderly parents up a mountain and babysitting the screaming Giudice children about a cruise ship.