Day 4 - Malta

Travel day. There are no pictures but we had a nice day. So we got up EARLY and headed to the airport. We got there in plenty of time and headed to the gate. We had another Italian breakfast with Cappuccino and pastries and got on our plane. On the plane they fed us breakfast (on a 1 hour and 25 minute flight), we were surprised by it. We then asked the woman who was sitting next to us if she spoken any English. Of course with our luck, the answer was no, but we had a fantastic conversation with her using body language as well as a map of Malta and Italy and the phrase book we have in Italian. It was so amazing to see how universal body language is. Once in Malta we landed at the smallest airport ever. It has no jet ways. You get off the plane and take a bus to a building that could be any building and inside is all of the typical airport stuff, just not very big. We went through the passport control and customs and then found our driver, Joey. He was very nice. He was born in Malta and has only left once to go to England at one time a long time ago. Once at the hotel (this one is only for tonight, tomorrow we head to the time share resort.) we had to wait well over an hour for our room to be ready, which stunk because all we wanted to do was change and go swimming. Finally they let us into our room. We did change and checked out the pool but directly across the street was the Mediterranean Sea...so we decided to eat at a small restaurant and head to the pubic gardens which allows swimming. We swam in the Mediterranean. It is warm, very warm with no waves. The area we swam in had some litter in it but I think that is because it is a bay. Then we headed up to the rooftop hotel pool and read and hung out for a bit. We went back to our room, showered and headed to dinner. We ate at The Kitchen (a restaurant not the kitchen here). The food was fantastic and although we had been warned that it would be difficult for Danielle to find food, we have found plenty of vegetarian options (at least this far). Tomorrow we will head to the resort and have them hold our bags. Then we will explore up in that area and figure our the rest of the plan. For now, Ciao!