Pompei was awesome!
On Saturday, Nikki, Jaci, Toby, and I took a very early train to Naples for only 10 euro. It took about 2 hours and we all slept the entire way. When we got there, the city looked kinda scary… so we didn’t even leave the train station and instead got right onto another train to Pompei.
If you don’t know anything about Pompei, don’t feel bad because I didn’t either until I got there. But it is one of the cities that was completely covered by the Volcano Mt. Vesuvius thousands of years ago. The city had no warning about the eruption and so everyone was killed instantly and all of Pompei was covered in volcanic ash. But now archeologists are working on uncovering and restoring the city so that we can see the ancient city exactly as it was thousands of years ago. It is amazing how much is still intact. You can even see the frescos and the mosaics that were in some of the homes. There was also an exhibit of the actual corpses of some of the people who died, frozen in the positions they were in when the volcano suddenly erupted. It’s kind of hard to explain, but it was incredible to see it all. Pompei is probably the coolest place I have seen in Europe thus far. There was a dog that followed us around most of the day and we named him Poncho. He was our own personal tour guide!!
We spent most of the day in Pompei exploring the ruins until our feet started hurting and we had a craving for gelato. By the way, I’m completely obsessed with gelato. It makes up for not having Coldstone over here.
We went back to Naples for dinner and then shopped around for an hour or so before our train home. We bought junk food and cheap wine for the train, which made the two and a half hours fly by. We sat next to this adorable Italian boy named Lorenzo. We all exchanged numbers with him b/c he wants us to go out some night with him and his friends. I videotaped everything…. Pompei, the train ride, Lorenzo… I can’t wait to show it to all of you.
The whole day was perfect. We had so much fun and everything went so smoothly. And the weather was so great! It was like 65 degrees in Pompei and partly sunny. I didn’t have to wear my jacket at all.
Seriously, I love Italy.
