allison.schantz: Sorrento and Capri!!

This past weekend the 11 of us went to Sorrento and Capri. It was soo much fun!! We left around 7 Saturday morning and took a bus to Naples, then a train to Sorrento. We found our hostel which was near the station, but ended up finding out that I had accidentally booked it for Sunday night instead of Saturday!! Luckily, we talked to the hostel person and he helped us find another hostel. We also got picked up and free transportation to the new hostel. I felt SO dumb, but it could have happened to anyone. I had to call my dad and tell him to email hostelworld.com since that was the only way to cancel my reservation to get my money back. After a lot of confusion and thinking I was going to get charged $350, we went back to the hostel right before we left and told the lady my story. She said "no charge! no charge!" and it all worked out fantastic :)

Our hostel turned out to be really nice, except it was pretty far away from everywhere we wanted to go. We ended up leaving around 1 Saturday afternoon and walked a lot around Sorrento. I'm not sure how much we walked, but we ended up taking a bus back from where we ended up and it took awhile!!

We went to the beach and swam. It was so gorgeous!! We walked by some cute shops, and eventually we ended up eating at a fabulous restaurant. A lot of people got seafood, but I wasn't a fan, so I got spaghetti :) We then got on a bus and rode back to a street that was closed off to traffic. There were so many people out!! I'm not sure where they were going or what they do, but it was definitely a popular place!

Sunday morning we took the train to a place near our old hostel and got on a bus to get on a boat on the coast. We went halfway around the island of Capri (I got super seasick...) and got off. We had around 6 hours to ourselves before we had to get back on the boat, so we took a short bus to Anacapri where we got on a chairlift. It took us up to the top of a cliff where we saw the most GORGEOUS views of the island. My pictures look like postcard photos :)

After that we went to the beach for a few hours then got back on the boat to go back to Sorrento. We ran back to talk to the lady at our original hostel and that's when I found out I wouldn't be charged, so all the time before I thought I was going to be getting charged $350 since I didn't have a way to cancel it 24 hours prior! It was such good news :)

We got back to our apartments around 8-8:30ish Sunday night. Besides my hostel mishap the weekend was so much fun!! We didn't have anything specific planned, so we played it by ear and had a fantastic time :)

Half of the group is going to Sicily this weekend for our three day weekend. We get the 4th of July off, so we're going to the farthest away place we can. The other half of the group is going to Cinque Terre, which is one of my number one choices. I'll still go there some other weekend!

Camp is getting better. My kids are having more fun (I think!!) and that also means I am too. Last Thursday 6 out of the 10 counselors cried throughout the day. The long hours must have been getting to us haha. But tomorrow's already Wednesday and the rest of the week should go by quick. Mondays and Tuesdays are always going to be the longest.

Hope all is well at home!!