A week without dinner:

Happy Birthday Ton!

Survival Food

Alright, We’re in Italy and as you can imagine there is no shortage of delicious food!  However, it’s all good as long as you leave enough time to eat; all week long, we were late getting to our hotel, getting lost, catching trains, buses etc… well after Capri and many other crazy excursions we missed dinners all week…we’ve been surviving on a good breakfast, and then pastries and gelato throughout the day.  This day (second to last day) we decided to relax on the beach and head into town around 4pm see a local castle, grab a hearty dinner and turn in for an early night with good rest.  We scheduled an 8pm shuttle back to the hotel, figuring we would grab dinner at 6ish…The castle didn’t work out (no buses).  Just rolling with the change in plans, we grabbed some gelato and some fresh bread, Italian cheeses and meats to snack on while we enjoyed a sea view sitting in the park…the weather turned fast.  It started pouring rain…we packed up our picnic and ate it on the run we decided to do a little shopping to kill time and then look for our restaurant….guess what at 6pm we get on a wild goose chase trying to find a top rated restaurant finding it only after being soaked to the bone…then to find out they don’t open until 7:30pm….I already know that’s not going to work out, so we head off to find another restaurant…same thing…the town’s restaurants don’t open until 7:30pm…I got a good idea..I’ll just call and tell the shuttle to pick us up later…won’t work, first no cell coverage then no space left on the shuttle at the later time.  Even further soaked the girls are starving and whining so Nichole and I go to the nearest open “fast food” pizza shop and let the girls pick something.  Nichole and I can’t stomach it and decide not to eat….another night without food.