Sicilian Adventures

Me and Tash

For this weekend get-a-way we flew off to Palermo, Sicily with Tasha, Morgan (GO PACK) and Lauren. Landed in late Friday night, got our Gelato fix in and settled into the quaint little Hotel Joli for the evening. Woke up bright and early on Saturday morning to SUN-finally the rain had not followed us on our travels this weekend! Palermo was not the cleanest of cities, so we hopped on an early train after eating some delicious Italian Pastries and were on our way to Cefalu a tourist location, but small town/beach area about 45 min away. We were in awe the entire train ride at how gorgeous the sights were. To our left we gigantic mountains and to our right was the clear turquoise ocean. When we arrived we looked at a map and kinda figured out our barring so we were able to make it to the beach. It could not have been a more perfect day out, sunshine and light breeze made it a great beach day and a great time to visit Sicily. Taking more than enough pictures as usual, Tasha, Kenzie and I walked along the beach and through the narrow streets of Cefalu to explore. 

Kenzie and Tasha

We stopped at outlooks along the side of the road where we were able to climb out on the rocks and see amazing views of the oceans and mountains. We felt like we were in the movies when they describe little Italian towns-this was definitely what we pictured. It was neat to see that every shop or restaurant on the left hand side of the street had a straight shot view right to the water. We walked a bit more then decided to stop at a little place on top of a hill that overlooked a harbor where it looked like fishing boats were docked to eat some bruchetta and drink some white Sicilian wine. Enjoying ourselves and our time to relax, we just sat and took in some rays. 

sunset 

When Morgan and Lauren arrived, we met back up with them at the beach put our toes in the cold water and sat on the sand for a bit. We all then found a table at a near by restaurant where we were able to sit outside to watch the sunset on the water. Some amazing pasta, filling gelato, conversation that lasted HOURS and uncontrollable laughs was what our evening consisted of. Back on the train and back to our hotel, we were in bed by 9 and watched “Casper” in Italian-difficult to understand, but entertaining to say the least. Up bright and early again in the a.m. we had no definite plans as to what Sunday would entail considering the forecast was rain (oh no, it found us). Thankfully, the storm passed and it wound up not raining. All of us found a cute little place to enjoy some pizza in the center of town, followed by a hilarious tour of Palermo in a horse carriage ride around. During our tour we waved “ciao” to literally every person we passed and were given some tasty snacks of wine, cheese, and salami by our friend at the local market. After our tour we boarded a bus and were on our journey back to Paderno. This weekend was one of much relaxation, great food, great friends, great conversation and of course WINNING.