Cinque terre day two

Cinque terre day two! 

This morning we woke up around 9:30 and got ready for another day at the beach. We got our floaties and put on sunscreen and went to get breakfast. I got this delicious panini thing. It had olive oil and mozzarella with olives and oregano in a pita like thing toasted. Very good although I'm getting really sick of eating bread and cheese. I also got a peach and an apple and an apple pastry. The fruit is so delicious here and so fresh! They don't have a whole table of apples to choose from, just about 15 to 20. It's nice. So after we grabbed breakfast we headed down to the beach. When we got down there we finished blowing up our floaties and hopped in the water. It was already a lot busier because it was Saturday. I was reluctant to dive in because I knew my bottoms were going to come off and the water is so clear that the 6 old men sitting there were going to get a show hahah.  Those old men plan their locations well. We jumped in and just relaxed out in the water. The water was a lot rougher. More waves and more choppy! Where yesterday we were being taken out to sea, today we we being thrown into the rocks. Julie's raft has a small hole in it so after an hour or two she was practically sinking haha. We played in the water until about 12:30 and then headed back up the mountain before out hostel closed. We got ready to do the other half of the hike and headed out. We grabbed some more fruit and on our way ran into Matteo again hahha. Learned where he lived also that his mom is the one we buy our fruit from. This town is too small. We were originally going to hike there and then train back but it was so hot we decided to do the opposite. So we hopped on the train to the last village riomaggiore and walked down to the water to rent kayaks. Ar and Julie shared one while I got my own. We headed back toward the fourth village and as we were heading out we saw all these boys cliff jumping. Ah looked like so much fun. We kayaked to the fourth town and then decided to head to our village... It looked so close. It wasn't. Haha. The girls were going so slow so I went ahead and soon I couldn't even see them behind me haha. I paddled and paddled and finally made it to our beach! It was even more crowded now. I paddled up onto the outlet and pulled it out of the water and then went and dove in to wait for the girls. They never came. Haha so I just floated an swan for 15 min and then went and grabbed my kayak again. Turning it around was an interesting experience on the slippery surface to say the least haha. And no one speaks my language so it's not like I can easily ask for help. I managed and set sail back to the fifth village. Whew Long row! And so many boats were flying by. Some if the nice ones would slow down but the big ferries didn't. They were a ways away but I was still terrified of their wake. After a couple of them I learned that i wasn't going to capsize but it was still sketchy. Especially alone! I finally made it back after about 45 min of paddling to find the girls swimming in the water so I parked my boat and went to join them. People were still cliff diving from about 30 and 60 feet. Ugh I wanted to do it so bad but the girls didn't want to. Another group of girls was going so i swam up to one of them and asked if she would go again with me.  Haha. So we climbed up the rock face and she jumped first from the 30 foot one and then I followed. It was so high up!!! And you had to jump out away from the rock or else you'd die! Scary. But after a minute of looking at it I jumped off. It was so much fun but when I landed... OWWW my bum!!!! I didn't think I could swim to the rocks I hurt so bad! But it was definately worth it! I swam around and climbed out. Some goregous man helped me out ;) those local boys just sit there all day preying on girls like us haha. And it works well. Julie took a pic of me but it wasn't very good so I went over to those girls and they had an amazing one so I gave her my info and she is going to send it to me I hope!!!! I hope! It was so cool. Me mid air with my arms in the air. After all that acitivty I was starving! I went to rinse off with the hose. And queqe the second set of old men with good placement. Chairs set up 15 feet away from the hose off station. Awesome. So I showered off and put some of my clothes and we headed off to search for food. We ended up finding this nice restaurant where ar and I shared a beef carpaccio appetizer and the I got a seafood penne entree. It said prawn like seafood and out came whole prawns. The only helpful part was their head was cut off of their body. I'm down to try new things and I ate the tails but sucking whatever is in the head out of it like crawfish. Count me out. Ufggg that is just one step too much for my brain. If they pulled whatever is up there out I would eat it but I'm not sucking it out. Eww. But the tails and the pasta was really good. Pretty messy though! After lunch we headed back to the train station. When we were kayaking we could see the other half of the trail we were going to hike and it was pretty flat and paved... Where is the fun it that??? We didn't see any and we wouldve had to pay so we just took the train to the fourth village and walked around. We grabbed some gelato and then went for a swim at their beach. So much fun but it was a lot dirtier. We swam around for about 30 minuntes. Ar was tired so she stayed on shore while Julie and I checked out all the little coves. Happiest girls! After our swim we showered off and headed back to catch the train home. We arrived at the perfect wrong time so we had to wait an hour.  When we got back we hiked up the 365 steps and took turns showering. We then went to the place with the pretty view to watch the sunset. Suh a beautiful view from there! 3 of the 4 cities in sight. We took a lot of pics don't worry! Then about an hour later guess who showed up??! Matteo of course haha. Small town like I said. We talked to him for an hour or two and driled him more on what his life was like. The boys in Europe are so out going and more fun! He was singing and wanted to dance and everything. In america the only way a boy sings or dances is if he is really drunk and won't remeber it the next morning. He was a lot of fun singing lady gaga to us hahah. After a while we called it a night and got some more gelatto and ate it on our bench and then went to bed. We ran into him again on our walk up hahah.  We all packed our stuff up and then i wrote my blog and passed out. Another amazing day! 
Misses!