Vesuvius

Bloody Volcano, Rickety bus to the top the you walk up and it wouldn't be so bad...but I forgot my puffer, and needed it. The walk was on an incline that was not pleasant and the bus gives you a time limit on when you must be back down to leave the mountain. Not my favourite day, but the others had fun. Sorry but for me it was an asthma attack with a walk with a hole in amountain as the reward.. lol not my best day but it was still fun in alot of ways. I got more of Connors bday present , some more pressies for Josh and more dang fridge magnets,... once i start on something i think i may be unstoppable...anyways if anyone wants to tour italy with us. come to my house an see my fridge when i return.. Will upload photos tomorrow when we hit rome. A big HAPPY BDAY to my most beautiful daughter on monday...17 wow who would have thought it!!  Big hugs and kisses and i will skype at 6am and dinner time so i see the cake.

The Isle of Capri

Ok I wont lie, the only reason I wanted to visit here was to see the Blue grotto... Apparently it only open 156 days a year. As you have to go through the mouth of the cave in a little boat and lie down to get in there. the algae in the cave makes the water glow blue. Wellllll it was closed today and had been closed for the last 3 weeks. Though if i was a tour guide i would tell ppl to go look at the water it is a spectacular blue without going into a cave!!! We got a taxi see first pic, and went to Anicapri to take a chair lift up the mountain to see some views wow!! You can see the whole island from here very pretty. We also had a few clouds go past us, so we where IN a cloud for quite same time, it was very cool in more ways then one. I took a pic of Sammy in a cloud. We also had a very interesting  boat ride around the island!!!! Wow was the water rough we where way to scared to be sea sick until we got closer to shore and the wind died down. We went through the lovers arch thingy and he made us all kiss... he was a fun tour guide even if we had to listen to it in a few diff languages. All and all i like Capri even without seeing the blue grotto. He showed us the green grotto...llol i imagine it was just as good...shhhhhh its alll i have. Apart from a fridge magnet !! :P

Pompeii

Pompeii was as we expected hot dry and dusty and alot of walking. lots and lots of walking on uneven paths with lots and lots of tourist. I would like most of these places more without all the tourists. We drove 5 hours and then got out and walked for 2  hrs... good fun for us lazy ppl. I am getting better at all this walking. Pompeii  was buried in ash on the 27 August 79AD. How precise is that!! it erupted and buried the town in ash and then the other stuff came and sealed it all in. Which actually preserved all the art works and wood. The bodies you see in some of the shots are actually moulds..  they filled the holes as they found them and found out what was sealed in the ash. anyways here is some pics look it up in a history  book if you want more info :P The hotel is great and so is the staff. The town itself is a small town that is built onto the side of a mountain and has city traffic... not fun to walk or drive in. We have had some good meals and some nasty.. As you do. i will do a quick catch up, 2 more posts!!