At first it’s goofy and sweet, with Rich, Kathy, Rosie, Teresa, Melissa, and the Joes playing silly games. Then the arguing starts. No sooner has Steven said “There’s a lot of emotions at play here and that’s okay” than Joe's Gorga and Giudice are charging each other like bulls.
Despite what her sister-in-law might say, Melissa proves herself a devoted wife when, in the heat of battle, she grabs the hat Joe lost in the scuffle and runs to place it back on the bald spot he’s been strategically hiding. That’s love.
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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.