Caroline turns fifty on the last night, and her children set up a beautiful magic hour dinner outside amongst the grapes. She sits at the head of the table, facing the production equipment. After dinner, as the men’s cigars have been lit, Caroline and Teresa have their final showdown as Housewives.
Caroline takes Teresa to task for planting stories about the rest of the cast in In Touch, calling her a disgrace with an “off-the-boat mentality.” Teresa denies this, just as Joe Giudice pipes up, “so what?”
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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.