Day 21: Another beach day!

We were able to spend another beautiful day at the beach today! The water was so calm that we could look for sea creatures and managed to find the star fish! The kids had so much fun.
We ended the day with a late night dinner with family to say thank you for the amazing hospitality over the last few weeks.
Tomorrow we leave for Rimini for a few days and might not have WiFi. We'll try to keep updating of possible.

Julian:
Today we got up and rushed out of the door so that we could get to the beach on time. When we got there we got right into the ocean. About two hours later we made an active volcano. How we made it was that we made a huge lump of sand lit a fire underneath and made a hole so that it would smoke out of the top like a real active volcano. Whenever we went into the water someone always put there hand down on a starfish. When it finally happens to me it had already happened to Mom, Alie, and Gabe. That night we went out to a restaurant at 10:30!! It was nice and when we finally left it was 12:30!!!! We were so tired.

Gabe:
Today I had to get up early because we were going to the beach and we wanted a good parking spot. On the way to the beach we were getting a little frustrated with a driver who kept getting close to our bumper, but when we got there we found out that the girl was actually their friend. Once we got to the beach, mom put sunscreen on and I was so excited to get into the water. The beach was so much fun because we went out to the rocks at the end of the sea, and we made a volcano out of sand and fire. Then we destroyed the volcano and roasted mussels on it instead. When I was coming to put sticks on the fire, I accidentally touched a hot stick and burnt my thumb. The three of us all found star fishes that day too in the water. Then we got out of the water and went home to do showers, then went out for dinner. We stayed up until 1am, then got home to go to sleep.

Alie:
Today we were woken up pretty early because we got to go to the beach again and had to get a parking spot. We met up at Zia Rita's house to pick up our grandparents and Zia Rita and then drove off to the beach. On our way there we had some entertainment because some girl was driving really close to our bumper and the boys were getting mad. It turned out that she was our family's friends and she was coming to the beach with us. We found a parking spot pretty easily and then went to the beach and found a nice spot and put sunscreen on. We immediately went swimming as soon as we could and we had lots of fun finding starfish and I was flipping around. After we were all tired out we went home and then went out for dinner at 10:00 and had some traditional Chieti dishes and then went home and crashed immediately because it was 1:00 in the morning. It was a super fun day.