Day 2 in Sicily

Today was an amazing and very fun day ! The day started out at 6:45 when we had to wake up . Breakfast was very good ! I had prosciutto ( It is very different here ! It is more of a thick ham with a few spots of fat . (I like it better at home ). I also had salami , cheese , and a small dish of canole filling with chocolate chips . It was very , very , good ! From breakfast we got on the bus and drove for 3 hours to Mount Etna . When we got there we started the long hike up the mountain . What I find interesting about the hikes we do is it is a great way to see how much of the group is in shape . Today was a perfect example . Me and the people in the front of the group got quite annoyed when we were stopping every 100 meters for the group to catch up and take a break . We eventually made it up to an area where we started seeing volcanic rock . It was very neat seeing it because I had never seen it before in my life but had seen lots of pictures of it . The farther up we got, the smaller the path was and the harder it got to hike . The volcanic sand turned into small rocks and it started getting in our shoes . We finally made it up to the final point of our hike . The view was amazing and you could see the volcano with smoke coming out of it !

 Then it was time for us to start heading down. I was not looking forward to it. We started heading down a steep down hill. We did see a few volcanic craters on the way down which was neat.  The walk down was very challenging...down slippery volcanic ash . Many people fell .When we finally made it to the bottom we had some time to rest and get some water.  Then it was back on the bus to lunch ! It was amazing ! It was Lasagna ! It tasted so good and it was neat to have it in Italy ! From there we went to the beach of Cantina . We went to Cantina yesterday and I saw the beaches and I wanted to go there so bad, so I was very happy when we finally were able to go there today.  My friends and I got in the water and did not get out for the entire 3 hours . The water was so clear and warm ! The Mediterranean is by far my favorite body of water I have ever been in . From there we got back on our bus and drove an hour to the city of Siracusa . When we got there we walked about 15 minutes through the amazing city to the restaurant, where we were going to have dinner . The antipasto was a zucchini dish which was very good but it didn't even compare to our main course which was a chicken pasta with parmesan  on . It was amazing ! Desert was a canole. It was amazing . From there we walked back to the bus.  We waked through the city at night and it was very nice ! We then got on our bus and drove to our hotel,which is also in Sericusa .