Tokens from my travels

As promised I will show you some of my lovely souvenirs, whether you care or not.

Now Sorrento is known for a few things. One is lemoncello, which I mentioned before. And you can find stores filled with bottles of it. However seeing as I couldn't finish one glass of it, I decided to go down a different road when it came to souvenirs. The area is also known for inlaid wood pieces. So Savannah and I found a cute store specializing in inlaid wood boxes. Most of them were obnoxious music boxes, that no matter how beautiful they were on the outside the music annoyed me too much to buy. The store also had a few beautiful small little boxes. I had a rough time deciding between this black one an a faded turquoise one, but black won out in the end.

As you can see in this shot I am using it to hold my jewelery. Also you can see that the ring I normally wear every day is in there, which leads us to my next purchase.

While on Capri we stopped at one of the many jewelery stores. These store were FILLED with coral, pearl, and cameo jewelery. Some of my roommates also went shopping there, Catherine got lovely cameo earrings and Kate got coral earring for her mother, and a pretty silver and coral pendant for herself. I got a ring. I like it, it is really simple. That plus my seashell bracelet Joelle gave me and my pearl pendant I've been wearing, I really seem to be going for the jewels of the sea.

While on Capri we went to the beach. Now my mother has me trained so that if I am anywhere rocky I immediately look for heart-rocks. I found a cool one there for her. (Mom, I will give it to you when you visit. I tried to find you one from Mt. Vesuvius too but that didn't work out.) It is one of the heart shaped hole variety. I had to flip the image so you could see the heart right side up, so the picture is a little weird but there you go. Hope you like it.