We bought tickets, and we also rented audio things that looked like phones. It had numbers from 0 to 9 and you were supposed to press the right ones, and then play, and this guy starts talking about the thing that you're looking at or going in. It was pretty cool, but after a long time your arms start feeling tired from holding the thing up to your ear. I took pictures of almost everything because a) they were so ancient and awesome looking and b) because I wanted to get caught up with pictures because I was far behind on picture taking compared to my Dad. The scientists buried through the rubble and ash and found a city that was alive 2,000 years ago. There were all these parts of buildings, and all these other awesome artifacts.
One of my favorite parts was the house that belonged to a very wealthy family. It was almost all there. It showed the baths (well, really the room that had the baths in them) the servents quarters, the room where the Mother and Father slept in, etc. It was weird how the house stayed straight up, but basically everything else was toppled over. There was 124 stops in Pompei. Thankfully we didn't go to all of them. If we did, it would take way too long.
Another place I really liked was the arena, where people (gladiators) came to fight. The audio phone said that the people in Pompei liked watching a good fight. We sat down in the middle of the arena, where 2,000 years ago, people were fighting for their lives. Now, grass was growing everywhere, and half the benches were gone. After we left the arena, Meghan and I were tired so we decided to sit down in a shady place while Mom and Dad went to the theater. When they came back, it was already time to go. We left Pompei on the train and then took a one hour bus ride back to Praiano.
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