Not Just a Day at the Beach

After yesterday's waterfall adventure [I climbed all the way to the top and also went through a tunnel about midway up to feel the spray... and we saw a rainbow] I didn't expect today to be so amazing. But... we went to the beach! We started our day in a small town hoping to see a museum, but Mondays are a day when things aren't always open in Italy, kind of like Sundays in the U.S. and the museum we were planning to go see just happened to be closed... so we went to the beach. I didn't have my camera with me, but I got some pictures at a lake we went to later in the day... and while we were at the beach I did get to swim in the Mediterranean! I didn't have swim trunks, nor did I have a change of clothes with me... but this may be the only chance I have to swim in the Mediterranean Sea, so I made my way in.

Last night after dinner we all went up to the olive grove and did night drawings with our flashlights, then Marilynn did a demo on egg tempura. Looking around the studio, it is obvious that we are all being inspired by what we're doing during our day trips to cities and towns. This week's shaping up to be full of new experiences, and I'm both excited and exhausted just thinking about it. It feels like we're doing a week's worth of sight-seeing each day but at the same time it feels like we just got here.