With yet another early morning at 8:30 we awoke to go to Mount Etna. Fun fact, it's the tallest volcano in all of Europe at 10,922 feet. Anyway, it was a fairly long drive as far as I can tell..however every time I've gotten in a car here instead of ciccio's motorcycle I instantly fall asleep. When we arrived it was pretty chilly even though I had my jacket and pants on, primarily because of the wind though. Incredibly strong winds.
Sadly, it was 60 euros per person to go to the very top and that was a little too pricey so we just walked up a side mountain that was very steap instead. Some other Italian up there was nice enough to take a picture of the 4 of us..but as you can see his finger got in all of the pictures :( . It was super cool to look out the mountain and see the ocean almost all the way around. After we hopped down we had hamburgers for lunch (they weren't bad for being un-American :P), we ran into a mob of Ferrari's. There were 94 Ferrari's at this car event (put on by Ferrari but all the cars were individually owned). Every single Ferrari looked gorgeous and they lined the streets and people were driving them all around this little touristy street halfway up the volcano.
That was pretty much all we did today, other than play videogames at home, hangout with his friends for a bit, walk the dog, and of course took a nap. Mack and Marco leave in like 4 and a half hours to Rome but Ciccio has his fast car driving license test tomorrow. Here in Italy you can drive a 50cc car or motorbike at 14, a 125cc at 16, and over 125cc at 18. After a quick google search I understand that on average the top speed is 45mph, 70mph and above respectively. Since this was kind of shorter I thought id share a little about Italian driving. It's scary. There's probably a total of 3 stop lights I've seen here (intersections at least). The other stop lights are for pedestrian walking, and they are always blinking orange, red, solid red, but never green. Long story short most drivers just slow down enough so that they can stop if they see a person, but blow right through the light. There's a ton of roundabouts and if your on a motorcycle from point A to point B you might come to a complete stop once or twice. Otherwise it's all just a matter of going faster or slowing down to make space for yourself. (Not to scare you mom, I wear a helmet don't worry 😜) Anyway, driving home late at night is way nicer than during the day because there's very few cars so you can take in the view of the city. Thanks for reading, goodnight!