Pompei

As you all know (if you were in class that week) Pompei is the city that was buried when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D....

Something like 20,000 people died and at some point they started excavating the city and continue to this day.....

Pompei was once a very happening place for the upper class of Rome as a hot vacation spot.....you will need to read a little more about it....there is so much that is incredible...but out of all of it...probably the most suprising (that I failed to take a picture of..) was the street with the restaurants that served hot and cold buffet style meals...we couldn't figure out why there were so many sinks in these places...some had two..some had 5 or 6...and finally found out that the bowls that we were seeing kept the food cold or hot....and we thought the buffet-style restaurant was something new!

Okay, you would think that there would be other incredible stuff...and there was...there were tons of bath houses, brothels, temples built for gods, and so on...just unbelievable....can't wait for you guys to see it!