Day 19 Relaxation and fireworks!

Today I slept later than I have so far in this journey.  I woke up nursing a headaches and headed to breakfast, Leslie was up and chatting with Alma, apparently the guys ate and went back to bed I took their lead, ate and returned to me room to snooze as well.  After a bit more sleep we all motivated enough to decide a lazy day on the beach was called for.  I headed to the beach and made it I bit before everyone else, it was so nice just to lay about, drink espresso and read a book.  We rested away the afternoon doing just this, hanging out being lazy on the gorgeous beach one last time together.  After our relaxing day we grabbed everyone else we could and headed in to town for one last crepe and a final round of bumper cars. I left early for some waterfront wandering and ended up having a rocket salad and bruschetta at Limoni so I had a dessert crepe, banana, nutella and almonds, delicious. We had to go to the “free diving” shop in town that we thought had closed but in reality had moved a few doors down.  It was quite an amalgamation of snorkeling gear, spear fishing goods, fishing supplies, kitsch and nick-knacks.  Cameron even managed to find a few fireworks, which he purchased as it is the Fourth of July and no one here was planning a celebration. Bumper cars are ridiculous fun at any age and we had one last go one them as a group, we laughed quite a bit while ramming into each other.  We wandered the boardwalk for a bit, everyone else got gelato, then Effie, Dave, and I did a little shopping.  We then headed back home to set off our fireworks.  After gathering Alma, the girls, and everyone form the program Cameron lit off the two fireworks he purchased, they were a little lack luster but we all had fun and joked about it being the fourth, Ada told us they were crap fireworks and we agreed. Regardless we all had a good laugh and what really was a memorable fourth away from home.  After I returned to my room I was able to video chat with Eric for a bit, and he was having a BBQ, so I got to say hello to and catch up with a bunch of friends I was starting to miss pretty intently.  I knew I was starting to get homesick when I kept thinking I was recognizing people on the street that were in no way actually in Albania.

Fireworks!