Immediately after breakfast, Joey and Sammy ran out to the playground with Lanna trailing behind, utilizing her dynamic lurching, zombie style walk. Being the only kids in the entire area, they climbed, swung, teeter-tottered and ran around with joyful abandon.
Beppe had recommended to visit Salò, a small lakefront town a few kilometers north.
In the future, I planned on following any of Beppe's recommendations.
It certainly didn't hurt that the crisp fall morning had evolved into a warm and brilliant day, more reminiscent of summer than any other season.
This quiet and beautiful lake front town boasts on of the longest waterfront walks in Italy. We started off near the far end and the boys acquainted themselves with some swans (who did not want to be disturbed).
After leaving the swans in peace, we enjoyed the view of the town.
Fortunately nobody fell in walking near the water, although it was a challenge! The lake was so clear and full of lazily swimming trout, it was hard to keep your focus on the promenade.
Since we missed the chance for a boat ride in Cassis, the boys were eager to ride a boat here. Given it was a gorgeous, windless day, we were able to get tickets for a short lake cruise.
Although we had heard amazing things about Sirmione (the small finger of land that goes out into the southern part of the lake that's not quite an isthmus and not quite a promontory and definitely not an archipelago), the boat wasn't going there.
Still, the boys delighted to see our boat arrive and they rushed on board and found seats in the bow.
Joey, having a fondness for pirates and bossing people around quickly assumed the role as Cap'n Joey, the fiercest 5 year old of Garda.
We quickly arrived at Gardone, another beautiful lakeside town.
The next stop was Moderno.
Although brief, our time on the water was glorious. The views of the northern part of the lake were amazing as we rounded a point towards Moderno.
Moderno was fine, although the lunch was by far the worst we had in Italy but fortunately the service was bad nearly causing us to miss the return trip.
The ride back was excellent as well and we quickly found ourselves back at the Salò dock.
There just so happened to be a gelato shop and we just so happened to enjoy their fine selection of gelato.
On the long walk back on the promenade, we did some window shopping. There was Lake Garda hat that caught our attention but decided against it. It certainly captured Lake Garda's geography but we thought it might possibly be misinterpreted.
The boys met Sofia on the walk back, a visitor from New Zealand who shared the same passion of chasing pigeons and throwing rocks into the water.
Fortunately it was a short ride back to the lake house and time to return to the play area. Joey decided to practice his soccer, more precisely, he practiced his celebration after scoring goals.
He modeled it after seeing some highlights of Totti who would pull his shirt over his head. Joey's got potential for both goal scoring and over the top celebrations.
We all had a relaxing evening as we prepared to head to Milan the next day.
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