Corsica Day 14

Not much exciting happened on our last day. We got up early, packed up and headed out. When we stripped the sheets off our bed, we did get a little surprise.

We drove from our apartment to Bastia and back to the ferry. This ferry trip was better (air conditioning!) and seemed shorter (it wasn’t much shorter, it was just more tolerable). After arriving in Livorno, we drove to an adorable little town outside of Florence (Turbone), where the kids played in a cool park (complete with a zip line for the big kids and a tire swing that the little kids loved) before having a very delicious dinner at the local trattoria. We then drove back to Trento. Unfortunately, I couldn’t help Tim with the driving. He was tired. We had to stop for about an hour outside of Modena so he could take a little nap before finishing the last hour and a half of the drive. We finally arrived back at our apartment in Trento at 1:45am. Luckily, the kids slept until the church across the street summoned everyone to mass at 8:45am.

Corsica Day 13

On our last non-travel vacation day, we started the morning with a visit to a turtle sanctuary. It turned out to not be particularly accessible for crutches, but most of us did get to see a really cool and extensive gathering of turtles from all over the world. The little girls were especially excited about turtle after turtle after turtle. The favorites were the super huge turtles. We had a lunch of panini at the sanctuary then headed back to the apartment for nap time. While the littles napped (or tried to, in Cora’s case), Tim and Amy took the big girls to the beach with the "big waves." It looked like great fun.

After they cleaned up, we headed out to what turned out to be a lovely dinner in Cargese at a restaurant overlooking the ocean. Even the kids’ meals were nice (good food) and reasonably priced. It was a great cap to the vacation.