Day two after surgery and I'm feeling nearly 100% better. A little bit tired, but besides that I'm doing pretty good! I move to Natchitoches a week from today. I guess that means it's time to start packing up. That should be interesting...

Well, back to the trip update:

Day three: A day trip to Florence! We had the option of going and touring a leather shop and whatnot, but my mom and I broke off from the group and did our own thing. We walked around, browsed shops, enjoyed a nice lunch, saw the Jersey Shore cast filming, and bought some pretty sweet jewelry. I got a cameo ring that I love. If you look under my facebook mobile uploads, you'll see it. I only have a few pictures from my camera from Florence and they are all of the same thing: a beautiful cathedral.

I think this is the most beautiful church I have ever seen. More beautiful than the Notre Dame. (the outside that is). Below is a zoomed in picture of some of the detail.

Beautiful, huh?


Day four: Packed our bags to leave Rome. First, we took a ferry to the Island of Capri, which was gorgeous! One of my favorite places we visited! We deboarded from the ferry, and took the funicular (the little pulley thing) up the side of the island to the top. From there we all split up and went to have lunch. My mom, Mrs. Nelly, Gabby, and I found a nice little restaurant. It was so funny.. we were such a bunch of tourists. We walk in this nice restaurant, Mrs. Nelly and Gabby in brightly colored ponchos and me right behind snapping pictures of the place. It was pretty humorous. So many laughs happened around that meal. We told the waiter we didn't have much time to eat. We all ordered various things (calamari among them) and the following conversation ensued:

Us: "We would like *insert various food*"
Waiter: "No no no, not enough time. You all eat ravioli."
Mrs. Nelly and Gabby "And some calamari too?"
Waiter: "No no no calamari! Ravioli!"
My mom: "Can we please get four caprese salads, please?"
Waiter: "No no, two caprese salad, two goat cheese salad!"

Later...
Waiter: "Where are you all from?"
Us: "Louisiana."
Waiter: "I was in America once. I was in Atlanta for business."
My mom: *excitedly* "Oh! What line of business are you in?!"
Waiter: *giving an incredulous look*: "THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS!"...
Waiter: *thinking to himself*: "You idiot Americans!"

(What's funny is that he was totally serious. He wasn't joking throughout any of this.)

After lunch we walked around the island, looking down at the water below. It was the only day it rained and we had plans to cruise around the island on a boat before we left and we thought they would be rained out. Luckily, right before we left, the clouds cleared a bit and we got to take our cruise. After the cruise, we took the ferry back, and boarded the bus. We traveled to Sorrento and stayed there the night.

The restaurant.

Tourist picture. Notice the bright yellow poncho.

Capri is famous for their lemons. They were gigantic! I still miss the lemon slushies from Italy and Greece. They were so good!

SORRENTO PICTURES:

This was below ground. I'm not sure what exactly it was, but I thought it was interesting and beautiful.

Okay, had to take a picture of the awesome tile in our hotel room.

Room with a view.



'Tis all for now!