Happy New Year!...

After a long day exploring Naples....lots of fun and hot chocolate :)... I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Recently we went to Herculaneum (sp?) which is like Pompei but smaller and more well preserved because instead of buring ash, it was covered with 60 feet of mud... So that was pretty neat. It was a giant resort/summer house town by the ocean before it was covered and there are all these huge colorful villas and frescos...it really is nice...

And two days ago my mom and sisters and I drove up a mountain to see this medeival town not thinking about the hug amount of wind you have on mountains...so we weren't exactly prepared for the cold wind, but it was fun anyways. There are these churches and castles that were built in the 5th century and a ton of narrow little streets to explore....and the mountain view is astonishing. It was really picture perfect....green grass, stone walls, villas, colorful trees, sheep..the works... pretty cool if I do say so myself....

And now come the fireworks...well more of them, today people actually stopped traffic in front of a church (which is hard not to do in downtown Naples where there are usually 3 churches in the same square) to set of huge loud booming fireworks at about 1315...and the city fireworks don't even START until 0115...they like late nights here...
It should be a fun night!
Happy New Year!
Felice Anno Nuovo e tanti auguri per il nuovo anno!