If I ever had to say what day was the longest day in my life, today would have been the day. We left this morning around seven o’clock and we returned back to the hotel around eight thirty at night. It was a great day though. To start off we took a three hour bus ride to the Campanian region. This bus ride wasn’t as bad as the ones the other day because today the air conditioning actually worked! It actually worked so well that most of us froze on the way there. Once we got there we visited the Grangnano pasta factory. This was an amazing little factory to visit. It was interesting to see how this little family owned and operated company could compete in the global economy and end up being a main supplier of gourmet pasta to Williams and Sonoma. It was also a great visit because they exhibited so much hospitality towards us. I can safely say that when we all left we were very satisfied with the company and the people that made up the company. They even let us attempt to make pasta and a photograph of this is posted above. After this we went on an hour drive to go visit the US Naval Base in Naples. This was a very amusing bus trip because the bus had to take back roads in order to get there. We took many roads that I thought a bus would never fit down or turn down but in the end we made it through without a scratch. We gave great props to the bus driver for doing such a great job. When we got to the Naval base we got a tour of it. It was very entertaining to see and talk to people that speak English again. The tour was very entertaining but most of us wondered why we actually visited the base. After the base tour we took the bus most of the way up Mount Vesuvius. Once the bus parked we started to hike up the remaining portion, in our dress clothes. It was very amusing to watch people hike up to the top of Mount Vesuvius in dress shoes and heels. Once we got to the top though the view was spectacular minus a few clouds. From the top of the trail we were able to see quite a few towns, including Pompei, and we were also able to see the crater that was left in the volcano after the last time that the volcano erupted. I was also very excited here because my camera held through for the day and I was able to get the type of photograph that I have been trying to hunt down for the last two weeks. I now feel safe to retire my current camera in the state that it is in seeing as it has made it from Guatemala to New England to the top of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. After visiting the volcano we headed back to Rome. Once we got back and settled in a little a small group of us went and ate at the basement restaurant again. Now we are all going to hang out for a little while and then I will go to bed.
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