on to naples!

ok, i know we are back home now and everything, (sorry to ruin the ending of the story... and the jensen family all returned safely to wisconsin and lived happily ever after... after they got over their jet-lag!) but i still want to blog about all of the places we went!
so, naples. the coolest thing is when we woke up and went across the hall to mom and dad's room (we were on the inside of the ship but their room was on the outside!) and looked out over the balcony and saw...
Mt. Vesuvius!!!
very cool. big, black, ominous. active volcano!
so, our tour guide in naples was hands down the second best guide wendy and i have ever had. we had this really cool guide in the highlands of scotland who acted out battles for us and was dreamy.
anyway, manuela was the second best guide ever. she was amazing. she warned us right away in the morning that we were going to be on a tour bus with her all day and that she was going to talk the whole time. she was very funny. and we really were on the bus most of the day.
we drove along the amalfi coast (sorrento peninsula) in southern italy. about 4 towns built into the cliffs overlooking the med. crazy beautiful. the roads were very narrow and our bus driver was phenomenal (he was a local). we spent a lot of time stopped on the road, waiting for traffic from the other direction to clear so we could proceed. manuela let us get out and take pictures, though. and she even got out and started directing traffic once.
she was also super gossip-y. she told us all you could learn about people just by looking at their laundry... mostly you could tell if they were a good housekeeper or not by how they hung it.
okay, this is getting long. more later... i still have to tell you how cool pompeii was!