Asian Invasion!!

Capri!

Our new friends!

Top of the mountain before the rain!

Top of mountain with Jeanne and Natalie!

Soaking wet with Antonio!

We had an awesome day on the isle of Capri yesterday despite the yucky/cold weather! We traveled with several people we had traveled with to Pompeii…, Julie and Bill, Jeanne and Natalie (the mom and daughter from Michigan) and we had some Argentian newcomers named Cukey and Henry (who were so giggly and happy and we loved attempting to speak spanish with them) :) We met Antonio, our FAVORITE/hysterical tour guide at the ferry then went for a very choppy ferry ride across the Mediterranean sea. When we made it to the BEAUTIFUL Island, some of us were worried about our later travel plans to different parts of Italy that day, but Antonio said, “Unlike you Americans, we Italians take it step-by-step…and that’s what we are going to do!”

We first went to the lower part of the island called Capri where we walked around and looked at the incredible view and shopped around and then we went up to the top of the island called Anacapri! Both parts remind me a lot of Martha’s Vineyard! While we were shopping around, we got corrected multiple times about the way we said “Grazie”…gollee…we are trying people!! After lunch is the funniest part…

Jeanne, Katie, Natalie and I rode the chair lift up from Anacapri to the top of the mountain. It was absolutely freezing but the view was so worth it! Katie and I decided to spend some extra time on top and take some more pictures, but we regretted that when it started down pouring! We quickly went undercover and got a latte in the small coffee shop. We weren’t the only ones that had that idea... aka ASIAN INVASION!!! Literally 40 Asian tourists rushed into the coffee shop and were pushing us every which way. Katie and I decided we needed to immediately relocate ourselves and the only option was to ride the chairlift down in 40 degree weather in pouring down rain…so off we went! Katie wore her jacket backwards so she could protect her camera and put the hood up to protect her face. I felt so prepared with my umbrella AND rain jacket. I soon found out that my rain plan of protecting my face with my umbrella wasn’t so brilliant after all. I hopped on that chair lift and my umbrella immediately flopped inside out because of the wind...MAJOR fail. We got off the chairlift soaking wet but we did not fret because we had Antonio to take care of us!!  Needless to say…there have been zero dull moments on this trip! We traveled back to Rome and we said bye to our new friends, which was sad. So thankful for email and facebook!