Day 27

Today is Father's Day. What a great way to spend it with our Dad!!

We finally made it to church too! We had the help of the GPS but ended up at a Honda Dealership about 2 miles down the road in the industrial part of town. It didn't quite seem like the right spot so we asked this old man who was crossing the street if he knew where it was. He took us right to it, down the block a little. It was in an office type building. We never would have found it.

The meeting was really good. There were actually quite a few visitors there so they had one of the missionaries translate all the talks which were really good. The youth speaker talked about the importance of families, then there was a talk by the relief society president about sisterhood and being there for each other, and the final talk was by this older man who talked about overcoming adversity after his wife had passed away. One thing I've noticed about Italians is that they are very passionate when they speak and very animated. Church was great and it's always amazing to me that no matter where you go in the world the gospel is the same everywhere.

After church we walked back to the boat and met two American girls that were at church with us who asked us directions to the train. It was nice to be the one giving directions for once. They were sisters and one was from Lafayette and one was from Palo Alto, they were staying in the Cinque Terre.

We changed and headed to the train to see the Cinque Terre. We saw this statue on the way to the train.



This is something you just have to experience in person I can't even describe how great it its.



We stopped in Riomaggiore for some lunch at Te La Do lo La Merenda "Let me give you a snack".



It was delicious!! Juls and I split some canaloni and fried fish. Bec got a whole fish (head and eyeballs still in tact) with rosemary and garlic. Dad got chicken.

Then we hiked the coastal trail all the way through Manarola, Corniglia, and ended up in Vernazza. It was quite a hike, (went from easy to hard) sooo beautiful, and the towns are right out of a movie.



















We spent some time walking around and got some drinks and watched these kids pull in on their sailboat.



and then headed back to La Spezia on the train.