What do they eat in Sardinia?

They eat amazing pizza and gelato, that's what. I didn't see a single sardine during our stay, not even one:) Sardinia (or Sardegna, as the locals call it) is very beautiful and also very deserted this time of year, which wasn't completely a bad thing because we had our own private beach almost the whole week of our vacation. The only downside was that it was much harder to find open gelato shops than one would expect on an Italian island. Oh well, we all have our crosses to carry. Anyways, apart from it being a little bit chilly and windy, for the most part the weather was spectacular and the water was great. We were gone for a total of 9 days and in order to get there we took a 5 hour car ride to an Italian port and then an overnight ferry to Sardinia. I was lots of fun J I stared a room with Anna and Mariah on the boat and we had fun playing hide-and-go-seek in the dark and telling stories. Here are some pictures of it all!

On the second day of our visit, we decided to check out this little town up in the mountains called and on the drive we noticed this little park right off the side of the road, so we stopped and let the kids play around for a little bit.

This is the view right across the way from the random road side park.

Me and Anna. She insisted we take some pictures:)

Here is a statue right outside the main church in the piazza (or town square) that I thought was beautiful.

The sign on the church.

This was a fun little shop we found, but we didn't go in because almost everything was closed. Unfortunately we arrived just in time for Siesta, but we still got to see a bunch!

Luck was on our side that day because we found an poen Pizzeria even though almost every other restaurant was closed. And what's more awesome, the pizza was absolutely FANTASTIC!

Another day we visited Palau on our way to the Island of La Maddalena, and while we were waiting for the ferry we found this amazing, and I mean amazing, park. I swear, had they built something like this in my neighborhood when I was young, all my childhood dreams would have come true. And yes, I did play on everything while using the excuse that I was looking after the kids. Don't judge me.

On the ferry. As you can see it was pretty ginormous because it also transported a ton of cars over as well.

A photo of La Maddalena from the ferry. While we were there we were able to get some amazing gelato. I got Pistachio, which is my favorite. Dad, you would be proud of me!

We also decided to go on a hike up to Capo d'Orso (Bear Peak) and it was amazing! It's the rock formation kind of in the back that looks like a bear.

Here is a better view of it.

Another close by random rock formation. I don't know why I took this.

Here is inside the bear's head. It was really cool because we got there and because it had been really windy the day  before, we couldn't immediately go and see the bear up close, only 1/2 way because they were working on some electrical problem (the pathway has lights so you can hike it at night). Just as we were about to leave the tour guide came and he let us go see it!

Here is a view from the Bear.

And here is a better view of the head.

Oh! This was incredible! There were tons of lizards all around and one of the girls saw this one scamper across the path and hide in one of the bushes. If oyu can't tell, that's a dragonfly in it's mouth. I mean, that's cool! National Geographic should hire me as a photographer.

Ok, so the tour guide was absloutely adorable and italian and precious, so I covertly took a picture of him to show my sisters, haha. Hopefully he didn't notice.

This is a picture of the sign of our Villa we stayed in.

A picture of the Villa. It was beautiful and seriously the beach was 1 minute away. We went multiple times a day! 

Pretty pretty.

The yard. The sign says "Don't climb on the rocks" in italian.

This was the view from my balcony. Yes, I had my own balcony. Could I get any luckier? :)

Me and Mariah at the beach. She wanted us to pretend we were dead princesses. She was obviously better at it than I was:) I am wearing a sweater because it was cold that day at the beach.  It was great because I got to go to the beach every day and their parents loved it when I took the kids by myself so they could go on bike rides. I love the beach!!!

Here is a sandcastle we made. It was so fun because I got to teach them how to find sea glass and sea shells and how to build things in the sand that will stay up and how to swim in the sea. Thank goodness I was born in Southern California!

Me and Tyler. He loved playing in the sand almost as much as I did. Poor kid, he got sand rash because of his diaper. It's a hard knock life.

Also, Italians are incredibly nice and I love them. I have never previously wanted to learn Italian, but after staying in Sardinia and interacting with Italian people, I want to learn that language just to be able to talk with them! And my favorite thing about the whole vacation was walking with the kids and being stopped by random strangers wanting to touch and look at the baby and children. They absolutely kids! It was so wonderful to hear them exclaim "Oh bella bambina! Bambini! Que bella, que bella!" I loved it. It was like they had never seen kids before:) The national treasure of Italy is not silver or gold, but children, and I think that says so much about the people.