Conquering Italy One Scoop of Gelato at a Time!!: Limoncello?

Today Katie and I had a “day of leisure” and spent the afternoon exploring the little town of Sorrento! Last night we saw that the weather said 70% chance of rain and we were afraid that we wouldn’t see this beautiful town lit up with sunshine, but thankfully the weatherman was wrong!!! It was so sunny and gorgeous. We hopped on the hotel shuttle and got dropped off at the main Piazza. We walked down the main street of very nice shops! We ate lunch at a restaurant in the Piazza where I had a mozzarella and tomato Panini…yum! We decided to try this licker drink that Sorrento is known for called Limoncello. Side note: Sorrento is known for its huge lemons! The waiter brought out the Limoncello and a “present” (as he called it) of little cookies (more free things!) and took a very small sip and immediately chased it down with water. It was absolutely disgusting! I poured the lemoncello in my water bottle to make it seem like we drank some of it. We didn't want to be rude! Katie and I decided we would just stick to Chick-fila lemonade :) In order to get rid of the lemon taste in our mouths, we decided to grab some Gelato! After lunch, we walked down beautiful alleyways of cute markets and found a hotel with a porch where we saw a gorgeous view of the Mediterranean sea! After a few hours we made it back to our hotel and went straight to the pool where we soaked up some rays!

Katie and I can’t get over how much we love Italy, especially the people. It is so much fun to hear so many different accents and guess where people are from (there are a lot of tourists but not an overwhelming number of them)! Also, the concierges gave us free Internet again and told us to keep it a secret from his boss :)

We had another stupid American moment that actually just happened as I am wringing this. The door to our terrace was “stuck” and we were so stressed out about it because we didn't want to have to call the maintenance man up again who showed us how to use the hair dryer. After a lot of pushing and pulling we discovered that all we had to do was push the handle down! Ahh! So embarrassing!