Positano Day2

(Originally written 26 May 2013)
 

Isabel:  Mommy, maybe you should call me a Billy Goat and call Josh a lizard.

Mommy:  Why should I call Josh a lizard?
Isabel:  Because lizards are really fast and Josh goes like the wind!

Josh to Isabel:  Isabel, you’re the best rock climber in the whole world!

I love when the kids complement each other.  It’s really the cutest thing ever.

When we come back from some of these awesome family trips, I feel like I have “perma-grin” and find it hard to explain to folks how good it was.  Naturally, people ask, “What did you do?” with this expectation that I would recite a litany of fun activities and sightseeing adventures like a tourist’s guidebook.  The truth is that some of the most enjoyable moments are the fun we create for ourselves, just hanging out doing our thing.

For example, today we spent most of the morning on the pebbly beach hunting for little bits of sea glass.  Sea glass.  Nothing real special about little pebbles of sea glass, and it’s almost even sacrilegious to spend all that time looking down at rocks when there are such beautiful vistas all around, but it has become “a thing” for us and I’m not going to make any apologies for it.

 

Later in the afternoon, after lunch back in our apartment and a little rest, we took a bus to a neighboring town called Nocelle.  From there, we went on what would become a 3-hour hike.  The kids took turns as “trail leader” and kept a very good pace through the first two hours or so.  The third hour was a bit tricky for all of us because we needed to descend very steep hills, navigating rocky paths and stone steps, with rather poor lighting due to the dark storm clouds and setting sun, but we all made it just fine.  In fact, I’m certainly proud of the walking/hiking/climbing stamina these kids have developed as we’ve dragged them all over Central Europe for the past 18 months.  There are worse things.

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