The little city on the hill....I know...poetic

Well it's been a while since I, John, have written...I blame it on carpal-tunnel syndrome since I did ALL the writing before. But Advil cures all!

Well since the Basilica and the Sistine Chapel, it feels like we haven't done much...it's tough to compare to those two. We took a couple hour drive south to the ruins of Pompeii. For those of you are historically challenged (like me) a wicked long time ago this volcano, Mt. Vesuvius, took out Pompeii and burnt it to a toasty crisp. They've excavated the ruins and found a bunch of cool stuff all around the city. But they've only got through like 30% of it so there's still plenty to go. We got back in the car and drove the curvey roads to Positano! If you don't know what it looks like picture a bunch of colorful houses stacked up a hill....b-e-a-utiful!...or just google it. We spent the evening walking around and relaxing. We woke up (side note: our hotel looks toward the houses on the hill and this mosaic church dome and the ocean in the background....ya...sorry) and took a complimentary (aka-included in the rate) boat ride down the coast to Amalfi. Again more beautiful houses, crazy hotels, and ginormous yachts! Jealous??...me too. After cleaning up our drool, Mal and I went walking around the city. Since there's only one motorized vehicle road, there were a bunch of little walkways and TONS of stairs! We returned home and got ready for a nice diner at Cino del Saraceno (tangent: we totally should have been Saracino's down here...it's crazy how far that name goes...I mean streets, restaurants, everything!!!). Dinner was followed by the usual...gillato. We keep fooling ourselves into believing it's healthier than ice-cream...pssh...not at the amounts we eat it at!

I was going to post that on July 2nd but didn't get around to it... So here's the 3rd too!

We took a boat ride over to the Italian island of Capri (CAP-ree) and did some walking around there. They had a funicular that takes you to the top of their "mountain" and we had more awesome views of the yachts and the Mediterranean. Thing is, Capri is tailored to the owners of those yachts...in other words, I couldn't afford anything more than gilatto...and even that wasn't cheap. But it was fun to walk around a drool and dream. On our way back we took a swim to cool off. During the swim, I got stung by a jellyfish, shocking I know (ok--that was lame). Nothing too serious...just a little 2-inch blister on my arm. Supposedly, urine helps cure a jellyfish sting...how i'm supposed to hit my arm though is beyond me...

Wish we could share this with you all!

Missing everyone!

John and Mally

PS- Mal got to talk to Jane and Katie (mom and sister) last night...someone's a little homesick.