The Island of Capri and New Friends

Buon Journo! It is our Anniversary morning and we are having a relaxing day- getting laundry done and blog posts. We'll go down to the harbor this afternoon and swim in the beautiful Meditteranean Sea. On Monday, we were so tired from our Pompeii/Vesuvius adventure that we had what I call a "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Day"- meaning that we layed out by the pool and had sodas delivered to us by waiters in tuxedos. :-) So, not too much to report about Monday, other than it was only our 2nd low key day on this entire trip, and was much needed.

Tuesday, we got up early and headed to the beautiful island of Capri. Our pictures don't do it justice! The water was shades of blue that I have never seen in an ocean before- just absolutely lovely and breath taking.

Now the "thing" to do in Capri is to go see the Blue Grotto, which is a sea cave made of limestone, and when the sun reflects off of the limestone, it turns the water a magical blue color (I have posted a picture from inside the cave.) It's a total tourist trap, but we succumbed anyway. But we were smart. Instead of just going to the Blue Grotto, we took and island cruise, which was only 3 euro more (so I don't know why more people don'e do it that way). We got to take a boat around the whole island and see some amazing vistas and sites. It was about an hour long, and then we got to the Blue Grotto, where we spent an hour waiting for our turn to go in. A tiny rowboat comes to the boat you're on. It can only take 4 people at a time. You have to sit on the bottom of the boat and lay down as you enter the cave. The rower has to wait for the low point of the ocean swell, and then he grabs a chain and pulls the boat through the tiniest opening. It was crazy and we laughed the whole time.

The best part about the hour wait was that we got to know some people on the boat, and ended up befriending them. We all went up to the town of Capri and had lunch together. Later on, we ran into them in Sorrento and ended up having dinner together and then going to a Disco club. It was a lot of fun, and I want to tell you more, but I have to go get the clothes out of the dryer now. Maybe Eric will fill you in.

I hope everyone is well. We are very happy and even more in love than when we got married, if that is possible. :-) We head to Venice tomorrow. It will be about 9 hours of travel (an hour to Naples, 6.5 hours to Venice, and a stopover in Bologna), and that's if we get on the fast train, so we might not get to post anything tomorrow. But we are thinking of all of you and hope that everything is great.