Sorry for not posting yesterday, however I honestly did nothing until 9 o'clock. We went to Simone's house (a friend of Marco's) and met a bunch of Marco's friends who were hanging out together. Marco said it was for Mack's birthday but we really just hung out like any other Friday night, the only difference was they sang Happy Birthday to him in English (pretty well actually) and Marco got him a mini cake that tasted like a Dairy Queen cake. Afterwards we went to a square that was close to his house and it was filled with people. We ended up migrating through a bunch of restaurante and cafés and talking to a lot more people. While outside of some pizza place we ran into 3 American kids! They were from Oklahoma (I don't remember the city) and were traveling for 3 weeks in italy/Greece with people to people. It was unimaginably nice to speak with other English speakers and talk to them. Well, that was about it for the night.
The next morning we went to the beach to was the sunrise and it was dreadful and wonderful at the same time because I was exhausted. For breakfast we went to a cafe near by and had granita. I'm determined to stuff down as much granita as I can before I leave it in Italy. Then we went home and I slept, slept and slept some more. I have no idea why I was so exhausted but Ciccio woke me up for lunch and asked if I wanted to keep sleeping or have lunch and I choose to continue sleeping. It wasn't a very good choice as I'm not very tired now here at 2 in the morning. Anyway after I finally woke up from that hibernation Ciccio and I took the dog on a walk around a different part of his neighborhood which was interesting. Then came home and his mom had made me an early special dinner because I skipped lunch. I was incredibly gracious as was my stomach. Tonight we went to some suburb of Catania by the sea. They all sound similar and Ciccio told me the name of it while on the motorcycle (I'll get the picture eventually I promise) so I didn't hear it. It was insanely busy, I've never seen so much traffic in Catania especially not in a suburb of it. The cars were backed up like crazy and had we not been able to drive around all of them we would've waited for 30-40 minutes. Tonight seemed very uncordinated because the majority of the night was driving around, we occasionally stopped and walked around but then we would lose people and find other people who want to go somewhere else. I didn't mind it though it was fascinating to see so many people and start to recognize people I know and remember names! Well, one day left and I'm going to miss it so so so so so so so much. It's amazing here from food, to weather, to people and it will be a long flight home leaving such a glorious island and returning to a 111 degree high on Tuesday.