Sorrento
Well last night we went back to our American Cafe for dinner becuase it was so good from the night before. We got there and about five minutes later it started to rain, lightly at first and then it started coming down really hard. It was lighting and thundering and then zap, the power went out. We had just gotten our appitizers (mine was the procuitto, which is a cured ham and really tasty and mozzeralla, Charles got fried mozzeralla and Dave got these fried rice balls). We laughed because it seemed like one bad thing after anther was following us that day: missed boat to capri, couldn,t find a hotel room, etc. In Sorrento they have a siesta where at 1:00 pm pretty much all of the shops close for lunch and they don.t reopen until 4.00 sometimes 5:00 pm. So we had to wonder and could shop in the stores that were open but we couldn.t use the internet and were pretty much wandering. The stores that were open we did find some really nice things. Charles got his mom this really beautiful nativity scene that.s set in a Naples setting. But back to dinner, after our appitizers we ordered our meal and needless to say it wasn,t as good as the first night. I got shrimp scampi. I figured that since we are so close to the ocean the shrimp would be really fresh and yummy. When I got my plate it was full of pasta kind of like linguini with these two kind of small lobster looking like things on each side. Now mind you we.re trying to decipher our meals in the dark with only a little tealight candle on our table to see things. I was a little freaked out by these "shrimp" on my plate. I fine with eating things as long as they don-t have their heads still attached which wasn.t the case this time. Plus in the dark I couldn.t figure out how to eat these things. We had to keep moving our table in under the canopy becuase the rain kept coming down harder and was getting us wet. We finally had to move inside the restaurant because there was no further place for us to move without getting wet. What a night. We were going to drive to Positano but cancelled that idea because we didn.t want to be driving the roads with the weather. I.m kind of bummed that we weren.t going because ever since I saw "under the tuscan sun" I.ve wanted to go there but I.ll just have to do it another time over here.the next goal for the evening after dinner was to find a place to say. We decided to go back to the campsite and see if we could sneak into one of the bungalows since they don.t lock the windows. Wouldn.t you know it they were all full so we went and did the honest thing and paid for a bungalow. Unfortunately they didn.t have any that had a bathroom included and so we had to hike up to the bathroom and showers. It.s not so bad except when you have to go in the middle of the night like I did. One of these days I.m going to only stay in hotels and be spoiled when I.m over here, like being in europe isn.t being spoiled!!
Right when we go into our room the power came back on and so we whipped out uno and played that the rest of the night. It was so much fun because Dave and Charles kept cheating with each other and calling each other on the carpet that I just laughed at the both of them and silently laid my cards down and won quite alot. It turned out to be a fun night after all.
posted by Camille @ 12:51 PM
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