Waking up earlier than we would care to, we met our tour group for our shuttle to Pompeii. We got to pass through Naples which was cool to see as well. After about a three hour bus ride, we were in the ancient city. Ryan was hungry so we stopped off first for lunch in this tiny little place behind a vineyard- pizza for Ryan and linguini with shrimp for me. It was really good but very interesting to see the differences in service from here to America. Our witness brought our bread with a baby on her hip!
Pompeii was very different than I had imagined, bigger in fact. The guide talked about the earthquake then the eventual erupt from Mount Vesuvius that we could see when staring directly south of the forum. After a while, al, of these broken brick walls started to look similar until we got to see the bodies covered in ash. Their expressions, which are still in tact, were haunting! On the bus back we mostly slept due to the fact that we've probably only been getting six or seven hours a night. We are defiantly going to need a few days when we get back to catch up, but it's totally worth it!
For our last night, we had dinner in our favorite place: Campo di Fiori which basically means flower market, and to our amazement they still had flowers for sale even at 8pm! Ryan had this incredible veggie lasagna and I had a salad with seafood, after we shared a panna cotta for dessert of course. Tomorrow we're off to Florence, what I consider the most romantic place in Italy. I'm excited to show Ryan all of the art and gelato!
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