A fantastic 24 hours

Today has been my longest day here by far! Oh my gosh so much has happened in the last like 24 hours. Started out yesterday afternoon when Dana and I got dropped off at our hotel in Naples since her train left so damn early this morning. We checked in, put our stuff down and set out to explore. Got a taxi over to the Galleria (picture a mall in the shape of the Duomo....high glass dome included). Wandered through there for a bit then down one of the main streets with all the shops. Seems like everyone in Naples was on this street. Just people everywhere. The sales are coming to an end here in Italy and the stores were in chaos. We went into one store and an entire wall was blank..absolute madness.
Once we were tired of walking around (we really didn't want to venture far out of the area that we knew...it is Naples) we found a restaurant to sit and have a nice dinner at. We sat and talked for around an hour and a half, just the two of us. It was so nice. I love my family but I did want some alone time with my best friend. Haven't seen her in a year after all. Also, we got a bit tipsy. Shared a liter of prosecco and we finished it to the last drop. Delicious. Also I had her finally try limoncello. I don't think she liked it so much. Got a taxi back to the hotel and finally crashed. Set my alarm on my phone purposefully for 6:15 am because her train was at 6:50 am.
And before I knew it Dana was waking me up at 6:42 am. Luckily she didn't need to put anything away besides pj's and we both made a mad dash for the station which was (thank god) luckily just across the street. Made her train on time and got a hug goodbye in. But oof that was really close. Scared the crap out of both of us that she would miss her train which would mean she might miss her flight. BUT all is good. She is now on a plane across the Atlantic back to Toronto and I am back in San Giuseppe...and well fed once again.
Gianfranco picked me up from the hotel at 9 and went back to their house to get ready for church. Between this Sunday and last Sunday, I've observed that Sunday after church is family shopping time. The whole family will go out and go clothes shopping and talk with friends. The whole town is out on Sundays, totally unlike Florence, which was quite dead on Sundays. Shops were closed and everyone was sleeping in. It was fun. Then as soon as we got back to the house I had to run next door for a marathon meal with my dad's cousin Angelo's family. Angelo is the dad of my cousin Michele, who took Dana and I to Sorrento on Thursday. The families are all finally beginning to make sense and I'm slowly remembering who the heck everyone is. I have a HUGE family here.
The last time I was here I made a family tree of nearly the entire family, or as much as my dad and all his cousins that I talked to could remember. It was a really fun lunch. Just Angelo's family at first then Susy and her brother, his girlfriend and their mom came over and then it was a LOT of fast paced Italian and more food going on the table (dessert of course) and me feeling a liiiittle lost and tired. But it was also a family that I really didn't know prior to this trip so it was something that was wonderful.
So now I am back in my parent's place, resting up. Michele invited me out again with his friends to go down to Salerno but first I am going to Skype with my parents. Haven't done that in a few days and my mom even sent me a FB message asking for some sort of contact =). More cousins got in today (they were at the beach on vacation) and tomorrow a cousin from Brazil arrives that I've never met so that should be fun. I think she speaks some Italian other than her native Portuguese soooo it shall be interesting. Gotta love my international family <3 =).