First Day in Praiano

I got to sleep in again today! I woke up around 10 and looked outside through the opened window. I could see out onto our patio and over the edge to see the ocean all the way to the horizon. It was amazing and definitely brightened my day right up. I was a little hungry but decided to look around the apartment before I ate breakfast. It's so big! 

Mom and Dad split a room, I get a room that Helen and I share sporadically (when she's not sleeping on the couch). In Mom and Dad's room there's a bathroom and Helen and I split the one off the kitchen. The kitchen itself is small but cute. We have a couch, a TV, a couple chairs, a dining room table, and 3 huge windows looking out onto the patio. The patio has a table with 4 regular chairs and an umbrella with 4 deck chairs. Huge, HUGE apartment. 

Breakfast was cereal and yogurt. I know it's silly with croissants left and right, but I really missed cereal! We hung around the apartment being lazy until lunchtime and then ate a big salad with carrots and zucchini and lots of good things. After lunch we continued to be lazy until we decided to go to the beach. We had already tried out one of the beaches, well we kind of tried it but half way down the huge set of stairs, we decided it wasn't worth it. 

Mom wanted to take a nap so Dad, Helen and I packed up our stuff and headed down to the beach. Sadly, almost all the cities on the Amalfi coast are on cliffs so if you want to go down, you're going to have to climb back up. The climb down wasn't bad but when we got down there, half of the beach was already in the shade. We set up on the sunny side and went swimming for a while. The water was a little cold at first but soon enough it was great and totally worth it. I wasn't cold but the sun felt really good when we got out and dried off. The beach was moving into the shade quickly, since it was between 2 cliffs and wasn't very big. Once the shade hit our blanket it was time to go. 

We walked back to our apartment, said hello to Mom and started cooking dinner. Mom, Dad, and I had noodles with butter, Parmesan cheese, bacon bits, clams and green onions. Helen had noodles with tomato sauce and bacon bits. We sat out for a while and talked while the sun set mostly into the clouds. 

Mom and Dad left to find an Internet Cafe, but Helen and I stayed. I'm so glad we did. The moon came up and it was yellow and absolutely huge! The farther it got from the horizon the smaller and the whiter it got. When it was about a quarter ways up in the sky the fireworks started. They went on for at least 10 minutes and it was amazing. Helen and I just sat out on the patio and watched. When it was over we both went inside to relax before falling asleep.