Another day, another adventure. Today we went to Ancona which is right on the coast of the Adriatic sea. In the morning we did our usual looking at rocks but in the afternoon we went to the beach!! In order to get to the beach you have to take a path that goes basically down a cliff (30-40 degree incline, yes I did measure). Going down was fun. We easily passed a bunch of german high school kids who were swearing the whole way down and at the bottom we stopped for lunch at the little beach side restaurant. There, we had pasta with mussels and mussels and snails on their own. I tried one of everything (when will I ever get a chance to have seafood that fresh again?). Some were good, others not so much but the worst part was just pulling the meat out of the shells (not too bad but still kinda nasty when the who thing kinda spirals out). Then we headed toward the end of the beach to check out some more rock formations before we jumped in the sea. It was awesome. There were huge waves and the sea was amazingly salty, like way saltier than the ocean. This made it nice for floating on but really sucky when it ended up in your nose or mouth. The guys decided that they wanted to skinny dip so while they were in the water (it wasn't very clear water) they all took off their trunks. It was hilarious to see how excited some of them were. The day ended with a trip through the local art gallery to see what we would be doing in art class.