Sunny Skies In Erice

It's another rainy day here in Marsala but Saturday was beautiful and sunny! What a nice break from all the rain and wind.
We drove up to Erice with our friends Dave, Sue, Jay and Michelle. Erice is about an hour from here. It's a wonderful, mediaeval town nestled way up on top of Monte Erice. You truly step back in time as you wander the streets and imagine what it must have been like to live there centuries ago.

We ate lunch at the Hotel Moderno and then had yummy dessert at Maria Grammatico's. ( If I remembered the names of all the food we ate I'd tell you :) The atmosphere up in Erice is relaxed and life is uncomplicated........what we all dream of, right?

I was completely captured by the architecture. It is so varied, rugged and enchanting. One of the things that I have found fascinating here in Sicily are the doors, mostly home and church doors. I don't think I've seen two alike. You definitely don't run down to Lowes and grab the same door the rest of the neighborhood has! Many of the doors have a wrought iron design above them and that too is unique. The door handles and knockers add great character to the doors.

It was a wonderful weekend with a chance to get out and enjoy the sun and fresh air.
I put new pictures on my flickr photostream so check them out :)

p.s. Please keep DJ's dad,Dan, in your prayer's. The aorta from his navel to where the aorta separates to go down the legs has some blockage and the iliac going down his right leg is almost completely blocked. The iliac going down the left leg is somewhat blocked. It requires major by-pass surgery to correct this. It looks like the surgery will be the week of Feb. 16th. Pray for the doctors to have wisdom.