La isla da Capri

Last night we decided to go tote island of Capri today. It's about a half hour ferry ride away and has this really cool cave that you can go into called the Grotta aurora. There is another one on the other side called Grotta Esmeralda since it is green when you go in. W weren't very Smart about planning and didn't check what time the ferry was this morning. When we came down from upstairs, we realized we had just missed one at 9:50 and had to wait for the 11:45 one. Okay, no big deal, we'll just walk around sorrento and check out what we haven't seen yet. It just so happened that we walked by a church that hadn't been open yet, so we got to look inside it, small, clean and simple. On the way out I thought I would drop a coin in the collection plate only to realize the it was the holy water tray! Good thing I didn't drop it in! W had our ost inexenpensive breakfast this morning! Two bananas and some milk we mixed with protein powder for €1.60. Since they charge for just about everything here, that feels so cheap and I was grateful I brought some bars and protein powder. After the church, we came upon this lemon and orange orchard that is right in the middle of the city. And it's about ten feet above the street as well. The street that we walk down every day is very busy and very noisy, so it was nice to have a little quiet spot to walk through. The wa they surround their orchards is very unique as well with these really tall posts that wrap around the orchard that they put up a kind of fence about fruit level. They sometimes even have a screen covering on the top as well. Maybe it's to keep birds away or something. From the outside it's kind of an eye sore, but inside it was really pretty. They also don't really cut the trees like a bush like we do. They let them grow tall. This area is known for its limo cello, in inch we tried b accident last night at a gelateria. It's a lemon flavoring that would be equivalent to vanilla in alcohol. Needless to say, it burned a little on the way going down!

After the orchard, we coninued to meander down toward the port where the ferry was. We had to go down these stairs that were about 100 feet down. I'm not sure how many stairs there were, but it was probably about 150. If you drive down it, it is very steep and very windy. We gt to the ferry and waited a few more minutes for what was supposed to be the hydrofoil. We couldn't really tell lid it was a hydrofoil, but they charged us like it was. Jeremy did very well and did not get sea sick! I'm glad he didn't since the sea could not have been more glassy. The water is sooooo clear and blue, it's amazing. We were wishing we could go snorkeling or something. It was pretty nice today as well in the 60's. You have to be prepared for anything, though because in the sun it's nice, but if you go in the shade, you get cold. We did fine in our long sleeve shirts and sweaters.

When we got there, we wanted to avoid the crowd at the blue grotto, so we decided to take the bus which was literally packed like sardines, at least we were in the front....to anacapri, a smaller town up the hill from the port. From there we could take another bus to the blue grotto or we could have taken this ski lift thing to the top of this mountain that is in the middle of the island. We waited a minute for the bus, then decided to walk through the pedestrian area. We saw some pretty churches, awesome yummy cookies and then kept walking. We saws sign the said it was about 3km to the blue grotto, so e thought we'd hoof it over there. The buss ever came anyway. W thought that was a bit strange. As we were walking down these narrow roads, the homes reminded me of the estates a little bit: lots of gated driveways, lots of property and rich looking old houses.i don't think we could have appreciated that from a crazy bus. Keep in mind that these buses are mini since they are in an island. Jeremy found some stairs and we thought, what the heck we are on an adventure, we'lltry it. They took us straight down towards the water and then on to the right which was the direction of the grotto. They then walked us right along the edge of a cliff where there were some old forts built out of the natural stone from the 1700's. By the time we got to the blue Grotta, wehad been walKing for about an hour and half. You have to go down about a hundred more stairs where there are supposed to be row boats going into the grotto. We got all the. Way down there only. T find out from some very nice French people, the the boats weren't going to be there until April! We just had to laugh! Even though two different people told us it was open, including a woman at the tourist info desk! Pretty disappointing since the was all wehad time for since we had gotten over there s o late. We looked atte bus schedule and the bus wasn't supposed to come for about another forty minutes. By the point we had walked over 3miles down hill and were running out of water. Luckily, not very far up the hill, we found some secret stairs that shaved off at least two miles! We kept walking and found another short cut up a ten foot wall. We got a few looks scaling this wall jus to shave off another quarter mile! We were pretty pooped by this point and trying not to bummed.esecially since we didn't get to see any other parts of the island. Se la vi....we still had fun and ate some delicious food. Jeremy and I both fell asleep on the ferry after we fought our way to being one of the first people on. It was so crowded. We got to see the sunset, then walk back up those first stairs back to our hotel which is probably a mile or so away from our hotel. I haven't tracked that yet n my garmin.

We rested for a little while, waiting for at least 7:30 to come around. If you try and find place for dinner earlier then the, you will find a lot of places closed. Our desk clerk this evening recommended this yummy place away from the center of town called filipos. Itwasvery nice and they even sent a car to come pick us up. The gnocchi was sooo yummy and Jeremy's steak was delicious. We even got dessert: I had a yummy crispy thing with nutella and creamed risotto on to and. Jeremy had this yummy English soup gelato that tasted like the homemade ice cream mom and dad used to make. It also had chocolate chips in it.

We are now down in the lobby watching a very crucial Italian soccer game where Napoli is unfortunately losing. When we were driving home from the restaurant, the streets were bare! Normally there are people alla over the place in their cars or walking, but tonight, everyone is watching the game. Sorry for all the typos. For some reason on the iPad, I can't get the cursor backup to a word to fix it. Ciao!

I hope you can see these ones. This first one is the secret stairs that saved us the two miles. The next one is the water. So pretty! We saw lots of kiddos today and were missing our kids. W love you Cozette, Atalie, Wyatt and Scotty! Xoxoxo