Positano Day 5 and Travel Day

Our last full day in Italy was very casual. I think we all needed that!

Our hotel had a great continental breakfast every morning. They had a lot of delicious fruit, pastries, cereal, etc. It was also on the rooftop terrace which was beautiful. Here we are on the last morning, enjoying our breakfast.

The whole Positano group.

We then spent the day doing some last minute shopping and exploring of the town. Here we are walking down the street.

We stopped for some lunch at a small cafe. The pizza was amazing.

Here are a couple pictures of the streets in Positano so you can see how narrow they were. We were behind this bus and I was amazed how it was able to go around those tight curves. At one point the bus did get stuck and we had to wait while they found the owner of a car who had parked a little too far out in to the street.

These are some of the stairs that we would have to walk up to get from the beach to the hotel.

After a very successful day of shopping we had our last dinner in Italy. We went back to the "Happy Women" restaurant that we had gone to a couple nights earlier. It was a very cool setting with the whole thing dug out of the mountainside. They had the wine bottles coming out of the walls.

Unfortunately we weren't sitting underneath the big bell, but the owner would walk around with a small bell and ring it. Annette and Margaret posed for a picture with the "Happy Women!" guy.

This was the catch of the day that the boys all shared for dinner that night.

The next morning we had to wake up REALLY early so that we could drive 4 hours to Rome to get to the airport. On our way to the airport we finally figured out how to work the air conditioner in the van! We made it to the airport and we spent all of our remaining euros on Haribo gummy colas!! You can't find the lemon fizzy ones here in the U.S. so we stocked up!

We were supposed to fly to Chicago to Dallas and then to Salt Lake. Unfortunately when we got to Chicago there had been bad weather so they were delayed. We would have still made it out on time but a plane had hit some birds on the runway so we had to sit there while they cleaned them up. By the time we made it to Dallas we missed our flight by about 10 minutes!! It was the last flight out that night, so we were stuck there. Luckily the Jarvises got a hotel room right there in the hotel so we were able to get a really good sleep before we flew home in the morning.

I was both happy and sad to be going back home. We had a great time. A fabulous time. But I was ready to see Gavin!

Positano Day 4: Pompeii,Vesuvius and Naples

Day 4 of our trip we headed out towards Naples. Our first stop was in Pompeii. Pompeii was the city that was completely destroyed and buried by the volcano, Mt. Vesuvius, in 79 AD. It was then lost for 1700 years! It was amazing to see everything that they had uncovered and what they have discovered about the people that lived there so long ago.

The first area we saw was the Forum. We then explored through bath houses and other various buildings.

Joe acted as our official tour guide, using his Rick Steves book. It was actually really helpful and had a lot of interesting information.

This area was a "fast food restaurant." The holes were the cooking areas.

I realized that I was exactly 14 weeks on that day, so I made Andrew take a profile pic of me to show the little baby bump.

Each little area was a separate home. Very small living areas!

I thought this spider web was very cool.

They had their own mini coliseum, their amphitheater.

Pompeii was very interesting. It was extremely hot that day and we were walking around for a long time, so it was a little miserable, but it was worth it.

We then drove up to Mt. Vesuvius, the volcano. Unfortunately with the really bad heat, being crammed in the back of the van, and driving up a mountain, I got pretty sick. I was really grateful when we finally got to the restaurant and I could get out! We went to lunch at one of the most popular pizza places in the Naples area. The pizza definitely didn't disappoint! It was delicious. You can also see the Coke Light can. We drank plenty of this on the trip. Andrew was also extremely happy because everywhere we went they had Coke Zero. His favorite!

We then drove the rest of the way up to the top. It was a beautiful view.

We then drove to Naples to spend a couple hours there. We didn't spend much time there, but I have to say that I was not very impressed. Maybe we just didn't explore enough, but it was pretty dumpy! We mostly just wanted to do some shopping. Naples is known for their handmade Nativity sets, so that was what I was determined to find. Unfortunately a lot of the shops were closed when we went, so we didn't have a lot to choose from. The shops were all in these alleys that were pretty creepy. I just made sure to keep Andrew close to me.

The Fuhr boys quickly got tired of the shopping. But they were good sports.

We did find a great Nativity set that I am in love with! So I guess it was worth it!

A couple pictures from Naples:

We then went back to Positano for a delicious dinner. We went to a place that we had been to before but the food was great, so we were happy to go back.

It was a busy day, but another great one.