Mudslide Madness!!!

A different view of Manarola

This is supposed to be fun?!?!

Vernazza marina

Although we had to get up a little bit early this morning, it was for a good reason. FREE BREAKFAST!!!! Free food is my favourite thing in the whole entire world. It's all free and you can eat as much as you want of it!!! After wolfing down so much food and stuffing my pockets with biscuits, it was time to set out on our hike. Our hike consisted of hiking to ALL THE TOWNS!! We were all set out to hike along the water but when we got there the path was closed because of a mud slide in 2011! This meant we had to climb up the mountain! The uphill part of the hike felt like it was never gonna end. Endless stairs and steep hills kept coming our way and I felt like I was gonna pass out!! A man even came up to me and asked if I needed some of his water! I said yes but then dumped it all over my head!! Once we eventually made it to the flat part is was unbelievable. All you could see was the never ending ocean and little villages in the distance. Around us were grapevines and vineyards, we even walked through gardens. Very terrorist! I'd never been on hike where it went so quickly from vineyards....to cacti! After around two hours we arrived in the first little town, Corniglia. Dad got us pesto cheese bread to eat so we could move onto the next village! By this time it was getting very hot out and I was scratching the inside of my ear with the end of my sunglasses but I tripped and fell and the arm of the glasses went shooting up my ear. I swear it sliced my brain or something, it hurt so much!! So now I was dying of heat and my ear was killing me!! But I continued on with the uphill hike with the encouragement from my mum! Once we finally made it up the rest of the hill, we stopped at this cafe overlooking the whole ocean and got a lemonade slush drink. The rest of the hike was easy and enjoyable, all down hill!!! The last village we got to, called Vernazza, had a marina where we could swim! I basically booked it into the water as soon as we got there! Cooling off in the water felt like a breath of fresh air!! Definitely what I needed! After a bit of swimming Tobin and I were pretty hungry so Dad gave us some money to get food. First we got kinder surprise (yes, you heard that correctly) ice cream!!! I didn't even know that was a real thing?!!! Soooooooooo good. We were still hungry after that so we went to this restaurant where you went up to the counter and picked out what you liked! Tobin and I said we just wanted French fires and only French fries and the guy said ok!! But when he filled up our box he started being crazy and making these weird faces and throwing in zucchini and these weird balls!! We ate just the fries and gave the rest to mum and dad, saying it was a present!!!! They were very confused but we ran away before they could say anything! Tobin and I were STILL hungry after this and disturbed from the zucchini fries so we just gave up and bought a pizza!!! It hit the spot and was delicious. After this we took the ferry home. At the house we were just chilling but I wanted to go cliff jumping except no one wanted to come. Mum agreed that I could go look at it and see if I wanted to do it but NO JUMPING. I got there and met two new friends, a German guy in college who came here with his new wife, and a woman who teaches grade 9 PE teacher from California! Us three went up the top and agreed we would jump the 20 feet jump if we all did it. I explained to them I wasn't allowed because my mum wasn't there but I would cheer them on! First the German guy went and then the PE teacher went. So there I was sitting at the top by myself after they had jumped when these three good-looking Italian men in their 20s came up. They thought I was just waiting and was nervous to go so they started saying "Easy, easy, easy". (That's the only English they knew). And I said "Yes, it looks easy!" So then they started saying "You jump, you can do it." I tried to say I wasn't allowed but they didn't speak English!! The next thing I know they started counting down from ten!! I look down and my two friends from earlier were waiting in the water at the bottom and they were cheering me on too!!! Once the Italian men got to one I just jumped!!!!! It was the best moment ever and I didn't get into too much trouble afterwards....! For the rest of the night mum and dad went out for dinner but Tobin and I didn't since we already ate dinner. We just went out into the square and met some new Italian friends! They didn't speak English but we played hide and go seek with them! After this we came home and went to bed!