fivity-fivity.

So today was awesome; quite possibly my favorite day of vacation. As I said earlier, today we went on our boat cruise (which was supposed to be a sailing cruise but the boat's mast broke off in a recent hurricane). We traveled around Capo Caccia (which was when we saw the dolphins) and then anchored in a cove where we went swimming and ate lunch. We met a bunch of new friends: 3 women from Scotland, a newlywed couple from London, an engaged couple from France, and an Italian man from Padua. We also had a really hot skipper (yup, Mom) who was Italian (Giuliano) and young. The English couple who ran the boat was very nice and we just had an all-around very pleasant trip.

Tonight's dinner was no exception. We stopped at a store on the way and I bought my idea of the perfect souvenir to hang on my wall (good souvenirs are hard to find around here). Then we tried to find a restaurant that had been mentioned in my Let's Go guide and we found it but it had changed names. I fell in love. It was an inside restaurant with old vaulted ceilings and we had the cutest old man waiter ever. He was really excited tha I speak "un poco Italiano" so we had some nice Italian exchanges and I learned that "to share" is dividere, and that's when he said, "Fivity-fivity" and I was like, "huh?" until I realized he was saying "fifty-fifty" :)

The other fun thing was that there are tons of dogs here, most of them free to go places on their own so they are rarely on leashes. So during our meal we hear a bark at the door and there is this medium-size white dog. One of the restaurant owners goes, "Vieni qua!" (Come here!) and he comes in and then sits and I got to pet him :) Then later I asked the man, "Come si chiama?" (What's his name?) and he said, "Blake". So Blake is a really cute dog. And I liked the waiter so much that Erica got a picture of me with him :)

Although there are some things I miss about home, I will definitely miss some things about Italy when I leave. Sardinian people are so nice.