A family comes to New York on vacation from Italy. While enjoying visiting all of NY's landmarks their 2 year old keep telling her father that her head is itchy. Dad figures that it is the different climate. He tells his little one that they will wash her hair and the itching will go away. The next day their 7 year old starts complaining that her head is itching. But mom and dad still believe it is because of the climate change and jet lag. While visiting The Museum of Natural History the 7 year old goes up to her parents and says "mama, papa I found this in my head." Mom immediately recognizes the little bug as head lice since she had had it as a kid. They went to Duane Reade and bought a lice shampoo that they believe would get rid of the lice. Mom and Dad treated both girls and Dad treated mom who also had it. They did the combing everyday until they realized it wasnt working the lice was not going away but their vacation was quickly dwindling away. They decided to go online and look up ways to get rid of head lice and they came upon Hair Fairies and were astonished to see that there were salons that rid you of head lice since there are none in Italy. Dad comes in with the 2 year old and tells me how he's been treating his daughter but that the nits are so close to the scalp that he can't get rid of them. I look in the 2 year olds hair and see tiny head lice on her scalp and ask Dad if this is what he couldn't get out of his daughter's head. He tells me yes and couldn't believe that they were actually bugs and not the nits. Once the lice treatment is complete he decides he definitely must bring in his other daughter and his wife. They all come in for treatment and the family was just happy that they could enjoy the last few days lice free before going back to Italy.
