Rain, Rain, Go Away .....

We have lost track of what day it is more than once on this trip! Today was no different! 🥴 As I was trying to orient myself to time and space, I realized it was Canadian Thanksgiving and we would be missing dinner with our family this year!

Although we are not sitting around the table celebrating with them, we are basking in so much gratitude for this trip and for the good health that allows us to remain so active! We clocked 18,655 yesterday (13.09kms) and logged another 16,000 steps today (10.58kms) and we haven't even had dinner yet!

While the rain was threatening to dampen our day ... we were super grateful it turned out to be just a couple of light showers! We hopped onto a local bus which took us to Santa Margherita Ligure. This was the start of our hike up to the Valley of the Mills ... where we passed oodles of olive trees. We ended up enjoying a fabulous lunch at the olive/almond mill way! Sorry ... no food pictures! I was hungry by the time we arrived that I just got lost in the moment of savoring every morsel!

I wish I had taken pictures, however, because the old boy particularly enjoyed the 'lard shavings' on the charcuterie board. Seriously. They were laying aside the salami and the cheese. We even had to ask what it was. He LOVED it.

After our tummies were full ... we bundled up to protect from the rain shower and headed down the hill to Portofino. I had heard of Portofino, but came to understand it is a very posh little town with high end shops! We walked into one of the shoe stores and the sales person immediately looked to my shoes. I guess she wasn't impressed with my Salomon hikers because she didn't even greet me. I was clearly not of the right class or caliber to have been warmly welcomed to her establishment! We took our exit promptly!😉

We picked up a Christmas ornament to hang on our tree and enjoyed a lovely glass of wine instead of risking further chagrin! We were clearly out of our element here!! 🤣😂

We caught the ferry back to Rapallo and will enjoy a nice dinner and evening on our own tonight! It's been so incredible ... but ... I am peopled out and conversation-ed out for today. I will enjoy the silence of being on our own for the evening.

Tomorrow is our last full day here. In some ways, we can't believe it is already coming to an end, but in other ways, we are ready to go home. We have five nights in Positano on our own, though, before we are flying home.

So ... I have to wish that the rain will go away again tomorrow. The forecast is not looking good! It is supposed to start raining at midnight tonight and has a 90% chance of raining clear through until Tuesday morning. Yikes!!!

That said, we've had forecasts for rain that never came true. If we get wet on our last tomorrow ... we will have nothing but gratitude for all the rain we DIDN'T get that was forecast.

Okay ... so night, night for now! Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian loved ones! xoxo
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