Sorrento,Capri, Mykonos

Hello there! I can't believe I've been gone for over 2 weeks now. My trip is going by so fast! Here's my little update for you guys So, from Rome we drove all the way down to a little town called Sorrento. On our way to Sorrento we stopped at the ancient city of Pompeii where lots of people were killed when Mount Vesuvius erupted a long time ago. It was really wierd to be walking around and thinking that an ancient civilization had existed there. I saw their forum, the bakery, and the church and the bath houses. In the bath house, there were 2 bodies on display that were frozen in time. It was very creepy to see the actual expression they had on their face and made me sad to think what their last thought must have been as they were being buried alive in ash. One of them looked like he had a smile on his face.

We reached Sorrento in the evening and wow, was it beautiful. It was definately a very touristy town but it was sooo much fun. We hung out by the pool for a bit at the hotel before the rest of the group headed out for dinner. I hadn't signed up for this dinner so I ended up going into town with Sean, Sheradon, and Jeanette. We had dinner at a place called The Garden (fabulous food!!!!) and then went around window shopping at all the different places. We stopped at a local Gelati place called Primavera, it was by far the best gelati I have EVER had. I ordered the Mango, Watermelon and Limoncello in a small cup. You guys at home in the states are definately missing out on this stuff. YUM! Got back to the hotel about 11:30pm and just sat outside my hotel room balcony and enjoyed my ipod and the view (sooo gorgeous!! The next day, some of us decided to head out to the Island of Capri for a little cruise. Our Cruise lasted about 2 or 3 hours and we stopped at a couple spots so people could expeience swimming in the beautiful water.We stopped at the Blue Grotto which was about an hour wait to get in to see (definately an experience to see how the boatmen take you into the cave. We then swam in the Green Grotto and took pictures of the White Cave. After the cruise around the island we had some free time to get some lunch and explore the island. Almost everyone spent this time at the beach so I just laid out in the sun and enjoyed the water. I was so tired from my relaxing day that I ended up napping by the pool for awhile before dinner. The next day we got up early to check out of our hotel and spent a few hours roaming around town before heading to Patras via Bari to catch our over night ferry into Athens.

The Ferry was really nice and it was great to have a cabin to sleep in on the boat. There was another "camping" contiki group that was parallelling the tour we are on and they ended up sleeping on the top deck of the ship where it was outdoors, very hot, and people lying around on the floor in sleeping bags. They were literally sleeping on top of a covered pool. It was absolutely insane! I am sooo glad I spent the little bit of extra money to do a hotel tour! At least our cabins had little showers in them...lemme tell ya those campers were stinky!

We arrived in Patras and drove all day into Athens. We had a little bit of time before we headed to our Greek dinner and enjoyed some greek dancing as well. We ended our night in Athens preety early since the next morning we had to wake up the butt crack of dawn(pardon my expression) with a departure time of 5:15am to catch another ferry into Mykonos. After being spoiled on the Ferry into Patras, the ferry into Mykonos was damn horrible. We were put in last class with crappy plastic chairs, smokers, and deisel fuel blowing on you... I tried to make the most of it by catching some sleep for a bit, but I could only sleep for like 1 hour of the 5 hour ferry ride. I was so glad to be off that boat and in Mykonos!!!

It is absolutley stunning! Our hotel is right by the water on Kalafati beach... far away from the main town but very beautiful. I was so excited to finally be in Mykonos that on my very first afternoon there I ended up swimming with my cell phone in my pocket. All I have to say is, you wouldve ran into that water too after all the travelling and the insanely long and uncomfortable ferry ride. I still can't believe I did that, but it's ok, I'll buy a new cell phone when I get back to the states. I am having so much fun here in Mykonos but I will update you on this later as it involves lots of partying, Stay Tuned!