Tonight we write to you from the deck of our stateroom. Max
and I will be authoring this particular blog. Mike and Madison have fizzled
out, but in their defense they didn’t catch a mid afternoon nap, like we did.
The moon is extra beautiful tonight. It’s huge, though not full. It has a
beautiful orange hue and it’s reflecting on the sea. It’s so peaceful. Perfect
writing environment.
Today we were in Ravenna on the East Coast of Italy. We
spent the day at the beach enjoying the warm Adriatic sea. The sand was too
hot, it got all over us and it hurt to wipe it off. (apparently Max is taking
the glass half empty approach to this blog, I’ll go with the glass half full.
See if you can figure out who is talking and when). I got sea water in my
mouth, it tasted terrible, it got in my nose and it was hard to breathe. I had
to spit it all out.
When we got to the beach we were given four lounge chairs
under two beach umbrellas. We had access to kayaks and paddleboats. We had four
free drinks with options of soda, water, wine or beer and we had a huge bag of
sand toys to use as well. We took out a paddle boat and played in the water for
hours.
The sea water was sometimes painful. It got in my ear and I
had to sit in the boat for a long time. It was no fun. The sea water also stung
when it got in my eyes. The sand, as I already mentioned, made me feel like I
was walking on fire.
Mike, Maddee and Max would jump, cannonball etc etc from the
deck of the paddle boat (it had a flat bow different from paddle boats I had
seen before) and would splash around having a lot of fun. I wasn’t as brave,
but did get in pretty deep water (for me) and tried to practice some swim
moves. Note: for those of you who don’t know, I can’t swim (yet).
The places you could stand under water had seashells and the
seashells can hurt your feet. I kept on falling in the water because it would
suddenly get deeper. After you got out of the water you would get sand all over
your feet. The sand was hot at first, but then it cooled off. We went into the
beach store-a li’l shop-and we tracked mud all over their floor.
We had lunch at a pizzeria on the beach. Mike said it was possibly
the best meal he had in Italy. He got a pizza with bufala mozzarella, tartufu,
mushrooms and sausage. I think highly of Mike, but I know he’s not a god,
though he managed to turn water to wine at lunch. Sure it was his lack of
understanding the Italian language, but still. He (thought he) ordered water
and we were brought a pitcher of white wine. Yum.
Whenever we sat down we would get sand all over ourselves. Even
if we just touched the sand we would have sand on ourselves. And it would be
annoying. And we would have to brush sand off of ourselves. And it would hurt.
We nearly burnt our feet in the sand. My mom stepped on a rusty nail. I got two
mosquito bites-one is big and annoying and one just really was hurting.
After lunch we got the paddleboat back out and continued to
play. Everyone was laughing and enjoying themselves. I floated around in an
orange life ring while Mike and the kids continued to jump and swim. We also
had some fun in the sand, building moats and digging holes. Max made up a cool
game that involved a good deal of splashing. Mike won every round.
I made up a game that’s boring like all my other games. It
got destroyed from the tide. It was really hard to make. The black sand smelled
terrible. I started smelling like the black sand. There were cigarettes everywhere.My heel was really hurting
from yesterday when I slammed it against a wall. Overall we had a great time!
This was probably one of our most fun family beach outings.
What a great way to spend our last day in Italy. We will all sleep well
tonight. Tomorrow we will be in Croatia.
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