Sicily

Phil had a 3 day meeting in Palermo, Sicily at the beginning of the week. Thursday was a public holiday, Friday was a pupil free day, then the kids have a "half term holiday" for a week. I have never seen so many holidays at a school before, this is the British education system. It feels like we have only just got back from Legoland from the Easter break!  This is perfect for us, as we get to travel a lot throughout the year and make the most of our time in Europe.

Thursday the kids and I travelled to Sicily to meet Phil after the meeting, and have a few days of warm weather. Stopover in Milan, and we met Phil in the hotel about 4pm. Our apartment had a view of the bay from our balcony, and the weather is warm!

The resort we stayed at was really lovely. There was a kids club, so the boys went there for the morning 10 -12. The resort had a series of waterslides where the last one ended up in the sea (with stairs to get back up from the cliffs), an Olympic size swimming pool, a kids pool with 2 spa pools, and a kidney shape pool. 

It was a hard choice to decide which pool to swim in! So we decided to swim in all of them over the course of the afternoon.

 

After Kids Club we headed down to the waterslide pool. Each pool had a life guard on duty when the pool was opened. The waterslide pool was only open certain times of the day, and was closed when the tide was going in and out so no one was slammed into the cliffs on the last slide. When we got there, the water slide was closed, so instead we went to the pizza restaurant on the edge of the cliffs and had lunch! Great pizzas in Sicily! 

After lunch the boys had a few turns at the waterslide, then we the rest of the afternoon we went to each different swimming pool.

Cameron is the next "Steve Irwin"! On our way down to the waterslide one day, a black snake slithered across the path in front of him. Cameron was great and just stopped and stood still. He didn't try and catch it! Phew!

But that experience doesn't stop him looking for lizards. Any sort of beetle, bug or butterfly, moth creature needs to move fast, or Cameron will pick it up.

These little lizards moved way too fast for him...but he still liked to chase them! These little critters were everywhere around our hotel.