Jonathan, Emily, and Daniel (and one more) to Portugal and Italy: Day 12, Pigeons were made for toddlers

Today we slept in to maybe 10. That means Daniel slept for 12 hours. We walked the long and winding road down to Sorrento. It is for pedestrians and motorcycles only. It's lined with olive groves and lemon groves. We decided we (okay, mostly pregnant Emily) did not want to walk back up that road.

We found a nice cafe next to a plaza. It looked like it was run by a family, with the dad cooking and a young boy, teenaged girl, and a mom taking orders and bringing food out. It was really nice, and Daniel was enjoying himself. We ordered margherita pizza, fish and chips, and coffees, which was all delicious. I can't figure out the difference between a latte and a cappuccino, except one came in a mug and one in a tea cup. Next time I'm buying coffee and the person behind the counter speaks English, I'll ask.

After lunch we went over to the plaza to let Daniel run. He ran. He chased pigeons, he played fetch with a pine cone, he towed his bee around... His face was very red after about 45 minutes. Then we threw him in the stroller and he fell asleep for the next 2 hours.

We walked around Sorrento for a long time. A little too long. We walked out the other side Sorrento, and we knew we'd gone too far when we reached the monastery which Emily stayed at last time she was here. We walked back down a different road and found a little place which sold gelato and a drink they call limoncello. Sorrento is famous for its limoncello, and this place had a little factory where they made it. I tried a little sample, and it was very strong. The lady said 30% alcohol. We had gelato, and Daniel finally woke up. He learned four new colors by asking for which flavor he wanted from the gelato we ordered. Pink was his favorite. Pink strawberry, yellow mango, white stracciatella, and brown coffee.

We kept walking, and found a park with a playground. He had lots of run climbing and going down slides, and he made a friend with a little Italian two year old toddler. I think he must miss his cousins. He was sad to leave but accepted it when we said “ciao slide, ciao park, ciao people at the park, ciao.. etc etc”.

We found cheap supper with some meat filled pastries and a jam crepe. Pastries are so cheap here. Daniel was happy but a little bonkers... he was jumping around in his seat, falling on me, climbing on me, yelling hi and ciao at everyone, and dancing. When the sun went down, they closed off the main street and lots of people came out to walk. I tried to buy a SIM card for our tablet, but we needed a passport.

We bought bus tickets at a tobacco shop and waited by the bus stop. We were 30 minutes early, the bus was 20 minutes late, and Daniel did not want to be contained. The bus took us almost right to the gate of our neighborhood, and lots of people on the bus were nice to us, giving us seats and helping us figure out how to push the button to tell the driver we wanted off.

We finally figured out how to get the TV to work... actually it finally just started working, I don't know what we did except Daniel smacked the kitchen table really hard... but the TV is not near the kitchen table. I turned it to a kid's show, and Daniel was entranced, which made putting him to bed very easy. The show he likes was called Peppa Pig. It's a British show dubbed in Italian. It's nice that he likes it, because the channel we got to work played it nonstop all day (not that he watched it all day).