minori

minori--its my new most favorite place in the whole world. its on the amalfi coast here in italy and it is so picturesque and beautiful. however- in order to get into town we had to spend 2 hours on a tour bus climbing up and over mountains on a super skinny, steap, winding road that really only fits one car-let alone bus- on it at a time. i thought we would die. thank goodness for our amazing italian bus driver who doesn't even break a sweat when he is taking a complete 180 degree turn on a huge bus filled with 24 nervous girls, while just about slipping off a huge 20,000 foot cliff. amazing. anyway, we spent the last two days looking at old ruins preserved from the explosion of mount vesuvius in 79 A.D. in Hurculaneum and Pompei. they are so incredible. it is so crazy to see the frescos on the walls and the incredible, intricate, mosaics all over the floors and the pillars. things were left just exactly as they were so long ago...the faces on the moldings of the bodies in Pompei still had the shocked and tortured expressions on them. then today when we got back into town in Minori we went to the beach! i am in heaven. total paradise. the water is so clear and so salty that when you lay back you float! i love it. i spent lots of time just sifting through the black sand for sea glass...love it. tomorrow we have the whole day to just stay here and relax with no bus rides of schedules--we are all so pumped to have a day to ourselves. we are planning on taking a trip to amalfi- a really touristy town just 10 minutes and 4 euros away on boat.