Daughter's trip to Italy - Part 3

This post continues daughter L's recent trip to Italy from the previous days' posts.

The girls took an inexpensive tour which included a visit to the town of Pisa with the leaning tower one day.  L did not enjoy that crowded tour with 62 people stuffed into a bus.  They were shuttled from place to place with maybe an hour per stop and were exhausted.

Next they took a long day trip tour to Cinque Terre. It is pronounced 'chink-weh ter-reh' who knew? Here is a link which shows how it is pronounced. It is a string of 5 seaside towns. Although it was beautiful and included a delicious seafood meal, it was terribly crowded with tourists and they didn't enjoy that part.  L says they sat on a beach chair and a man approached them demanding 16 euros so they got up and were content to just dip their feet into the water for a bit.

seafood lunch

seafood lunch continued

Stay tuned for part 4!

For the Taking

I was tempted to take one of these pots on the weekend (the largest one), these people put a whole bunch of stuff out for free. What do you think?

I had a busy day yesterday. I took my mom for her heart checkup. She had an ECG and an echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) done, then we saw the cardiologist. She's been stable for the past 6 months (she has congestive heart failure) and he doesn't need to see her for another 6 months unless things change. We went for a seafood (crab and lobster) lunch at a Chinese restaurant. It was delicious. The waiters and waitresses were all very friendly, either they weren't very busy, or else everyone was having a good day. We even got  complimentary corn soup (like an egg drop soup) and at the end of the meal I asked for 'that hot, black, sweet, silky dessert' and got it! The waitress couldn't tell me the name in English and I didn't know what it was either.  How's that for successful communication skills!

Corn Soup

Crab and Lobster dishes