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!