Hello, fellow homo sapiens.
This Tuesday, at 7am, the entire SMC Rome Program shuffled on a coach bus to make our way to Southern Italy (So-It as us trendy people call it). We were in for five days of 6am wake up calls, head counts, ancient ruins and beautiful Southern Italy.
Tuesday: We went directly to the ancient ruins of Herculanium and Pompeii. Really cool stuff, but a very long day. By the time we checked into the hotel and got settled, we were on the verge of falling over from exhaustion. After a good dinner of bruschetta, pasta, fish, potatoes, salad and tiramisu, that is exactly what we did.
Wednesday: After a wonderful breakfast of multiples breads, yogurts, fruits, juices and coffees, we set out fr our day on the Amalfi Coast. It was gorgeousssssss. One of the most beautiful places I ahve ever seen. Also, they are famous for their lemons and limoncello. They have lemon everythinggggg. Lemon soap, lemon perfume, lemon chocolate, lemon candy, lemon candles. It was fun to spend some time sampling and shopping around the lemon-laden town.
Thursday: We spent the day in the archaeological museum and ancient ruins of the Magna Grecia town, Paestum.
Friday: CAPRI. Actually probably the most beautiful place I have ever been to ever. We took a bus down to the beach and then had to take another boat to the island of Capri, but it was worth every minute of travel. As soon as we got there, some of us went on a boat tour of the island. It was incredible. It was one of the places you can't quite capture in a picture (however, you can tell by my 48,986 pictures on Facebook, I tried). It was gorgeous. The water was the bluest I have ever seen in my entire life. At one point in the tour, we got out of the boat and got into small rowboats to go int the Blue Grotto. The Blue Grotto is a grotto (obviously) that is lit via reflections of the sun onto the limestone on the bottom of the grotto. The light comes up through the water and creates a neon blue that illuminates the entire grotto. It's gorgeous. However, the entrance to the grotto is so small that everyone has to lay down in the boat to get through the teeny tiny hole in the rock. I won't say it's my favorite moment, but I will say that having the weird rowboat rower lay on me to fit through the hole of the grotto is in my top five. After the tour, we spent the day exploring and taking in the beauty of Capri. I truly hope one day I can go back and spend more time there.
Saturday: Haley and I woke up with bedbug bites. Yes. Bed. Bug. Bites. NOT OK. SO NOT OK. We spent the day in Naples doing ancient stuff and what have you but as soon as we got home we washed all of our stuff and dried it on the highest heat and sprayed everything we had with us with rubbing alcohol. The bugs are gone for sure since we were so aggressive with it but our bodies are still covered in itchy bites that look like chicken pox. Honestly, only us. We spent Saturday night watching a movie on the terrace as the smell of 90% rubbing alcohol left our room. At least we slept in peace knowing the bugs are GONE.
xoxoxxoxox from the infested girl
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