She is beside herself that Jackie could throw a laid back birthday party for her kids and serve pizza while they play basketball in the driveway. If Jackie is so rich, shouldn’t she throw elaborate parties to show off? Jackie disagrees. Kids like pizza so why waste money on a spread?
This should be easily resolved! But Jen won’t let it go. Melissa jokingly points out that Jackie is saving her money to benefit her kids in the future, which Jen takes as an act of war. She throws her plate and cutlery at Melissa, and leaves the trip in a huff.
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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.