Amalfi Coast!

Finally I get a chance to breathe and update my blog a little bit..

So this past weekend we went to the Amalfi Coast!!  We left on Thursday and were on a coach bus for 7 1/2 hours casually running into a car accident and having to do a 3 point turn on the highway all fearing our lives at 2 am.  But regardless, we arrived at Sorrento at around 3am.  We stayed at Hostel 7 and the trip was organized through a group called Bus2Alps and for the most part it was very organized.  The hostel was really nice which I was surprised about except the names of the rooms were kinda creepy.  We stayed in room "Silk", us, the boys, and 2 other girls (poor girls didn't know what hit them when we came in there).

We were out of the hostel by 7:30am ready for Capri!  We took a boat to get there and as soon as we arrived we got in another smaller boat for a tour!  Our first stop was the Blue Grotto, one of the 7 wonders of the world.  The way that the sun hits the water turns the water into this radient aqua blue and literally the most amazing sight I've ever seen.  I honestly never wanted to leave the grotto even though our tour guide man was singing Italian with the worst voice known to man kind.

The pictures will just never do it justice.  I have about 7,000,000 pictures of Capri unfortuantely cannot load them all up here but it was amazing.  This is the view from the town of Capri, which is known for lemons and literally they have the best lemon slushies in the universe, sorry Sundaes.

We then took a chair lift about 1800 ft above sea level IN THE CLOUDS and saw what I think is the most amazing, breathtaking view I've ever seen.  Even the boys were "ooh-ing and ah-ing".  Our "family" is what we call our group of friends that we've made and the family all took a photoshoot of ourselves.  Once again, the pictures don't do this justice but I get chills just looking at them.

The next day we went to the island of Possitano.  This was the day of relaxation and BEACH! Normally, I'm not really the beach type, completely the opposite of the entire Bucci family woops, but I was ready to relax and get some of my Punta Cana tan back.  The beaches had black sand and it was hot. SO HOT. But so nice, we just lounged the day away, not really realizing the life we are currently living is real.

On the last day, we went to Pompeii.  As I said before, I've turned into a weirdo history buff since I've been here.  I remember learning about Pompeii and Mt. Vesuvius dating back to Ms. Crabtree in 7th grade social studies.  Nothing and I repeat NOTHING will come close to seeing Pompeii for all of it's entirety.  It was such a mind blowing experience I didn't even know where to begin.  An entire city, just gone.  We saw the remains of people, amphitheaters, and houses and a day later, I still cannot wrap my head around the whole thing.  We had a hard time figuring out which mountain was Vesuvius but once we did, it was crazy how we didn't see it before.  The fact the the discovery of an entire city was accidental is probably the most mind blowing part.