Oristano

After the kitten rescue we stopped at the beach.

Eira had alot of sand in her diaper so she had to go skinny dipping in the Med :)
Way behind Mathew you can see land, we are on our way there to walk our butts up a stinking steep hill to see more ancient stuff-it fun though.
Yeow! yeow!

This is Nora. It has ruins of an ancient civilization starting with the Phoenecians (B.C.!)I think.
In the first pic you see the lighthouse. In the second pic is the road, this one is a little hammered but WOW! amazin'.



The nest is the colosseum with the floors and pots. The pots had metal inside them to reinforce them. Cool to see. The next is the mosaic floor and remnants of pillars for the temple (I think).
It ia amazing how the floors have lasted hundreds/thousands of years!
This last pic is a public potty. You can see the remains of 3 on one side and one on the other. Yeah, EEW!
I have many more pics of Nora but I wont bore you...I'll wait till we get home. Heehee;)

Things that make us laugh

This first pic is funny because the sign says "No Parking".
The second pic is of a little door in the crack-this one you may have needed to be here.

"Original Marines" is that like Old Navy?


Me pointing at the back driver side of the engine-This is funny because we have driven about 86 clicks from our hotel. As we were driving I had commented to Mathew how the freeway was strange because it has this "yeow!" "yeow!" noise sorta like when you cross the street in downtown SLC by the temple. Mats solution was to turn up the radio.
As we slowed into the town of Oraistano that noise was louder. I said "that sounds like a cat! Pull over!" I jumped out and Mat opened the hood-It looked like a clean engine and then the noise started again and there was a little cream and yellow kitten tucked down safely in the wheel well of the car.
He didn't want to come out-I thought he was stuck and I found Eiras hat to put my hand in there and try to get him out. We couldn't get him out but we started hitting the wheel well on the outside and he was quite eager to get out.
He was still yeowing about what happened to him when he got out. I kept trying to get a pic of him but he kept running away from me so in the last photo he is under the bush. That was the best I could take-I'll bet he is still yeowing! Mat calls this picture "Kittensquach" because its like the Sasquatch picture.
Mathew and I had a good laugh and would yeow at each other on our hike.

This is the tower it is part of the castle. I was told that the Nazis used this during the second world war, I have not looked it up to confirm it. In the curved arches are two portucullis with spikes (shivvver!)

Hmmm, this was on the front of the tower-I think its an elephant....or is it a pig with a long tongue? I just don't know, wadda you think?

Here are a few of the things we saw on Sunday. Did you know that in Italy days of the week are not capitalized?
The pic with the tree is the colosseum from a long long time ago, I for get when.
The next is a fun little street. The bottoms of the buildings are very old-some even looked like the intrances were carved form rock.

We walked our butts off and so of course needed to stop for some Gelato! MMMMM Gelato.....

This is my door. If it looks slim, it is. I had to fold th B.O.B to get inside the door!
Next pic is the bathroom/shower/sink area...yeah, the pic makes it look bigger than it was.

Here are the beds. Little miss squirmenstein is just waking up. We went out on deck and the sun was just comming up, So pretty:)



Here is a pick of us sailing to Cagliari (Turns out the G is silent so it is pronounced Cali-ari)

Off we go...ITALY

Here is Eira looking out the window on our airplane.....MANY hours later we arrived in ROMA!
(Isn't that a tomato?....mmmmm tomatos)

After two longish train rides we safely made it to Civitavecchia (civi-ta-vek-ee-a). Off to find the ticket place to get our ferrie tickets-2 hours of walking and getting bad directions, or maybe my Italian is horrid and I didn't understand...Naw, it was the directions-we found the place:)

That is our ferrie, it looks big.
Here we are on board, behind us is Civitavecchia.
Look Xander, they have life boats-they look little but they are very large:)

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