Mission Impossible!!!

So yesterday we decided to go to Capri which is an unbelievably gorgeous city. I know we have said that many times before but this one may take the cake. It is a relatively small island set amongst a mountain in the ocean. It is where very rich people live and tourists go to see the amazing sites. Most people who have heard of Capri have heard of the Blue Grotto. It is a tiny little cave set in the rocks and would be very easy to miss as the opening is about 4 feet wide and 0-5 feet tall depending on the waves.
Anyways, to start the day off we knew we wanted to visit this island paradise and looked up the times to leave. To get to the Blue Grotto you need to take a ferry from Sorrento to the port in Capri, a funicular to the top which is actually Capri, a bus to Anacapri and then a bus down the other side of the island, and then you finally walk down a flight of stairs which leads you to an impressive "beach" and the Blue Grotto.
So we started the day out running down the hill of our hostel to catch the tram which takes us into downtown Sorrento. From there we booked it to the marina which is down a cliff, no joke, Erika just happened to find a flight of stairs, to race to get a ticket when we find a long line of people doing the exact thing we are. We had less than ten minutes til the boat left, as the next one was 4 hours away, to buy our ticket and then board the boat that was at the end of the dock quite far from us.
After running there, while sweating profusely, we make it on the boat just moments before they closed up. Naturally we high fived our good fortune. Thinking we had made it easy for ourselves we realized how much more was involved before we got to our actual destination. We took the funicular up just before it had filled up completely and we would have waited 15 minutes. We then followed the rest of the busses to our destination and found it was more than worth it. The beach is set on the rocks and you have to take stairs down to the water, or you can jump off the sides of the 1-7 meter cliffs. Either way you are in extremely blue, refreshing water where it is easy to see the hundreds of fish swimming around you.
After spending hours there enjoying the sun and jumping into the water we headed over to the Blue Grotto. You have to take a small boat that fits four and the boatsman. To get into the cave, which I mentioned how big the entrance is, you have to lay down on the floor of the boat. Then boat by boat a group is rushed into the cave before the waves get too big. Once inside we were treated to a phenomenal display of glowing water. Because of the way the sun shines in, it looks like neon blue lights are shining deep below us. We could see amazing fish, some striped like leopards, and the eerie glow all around us. Very cool but unfortunately we couldn't spend very long in there as we were taken out just minutes later.
All in all a wonderful day and that alone was worth the trip to Europe! We will post tomorrow about our trip up the mountainside of Vesuvius, yes we walked part way, and to the amazing ruins of Herculanium.
Ciao!