POMPEII!!

Today I got to walk around in a city that was greatly flourishing until a natural disaster in 79 AD. Pompeii! It was hard to wrap my head around the fact that the streets that I was walking on used to be covered by volcanic rock until it was excavated. Streets where there were no cars, just carts, donkeys and horses. Streets filled with people that had no idea what was going to happen to them. When you think about it walking in Pompeii is just like walking in a cemetery or a ghost town. No one is there but you can see straight into their past. 

Many things in Pompeii were cool but my favorite was the amphitheater. Similar to the colosseum but not as big, the amphitheater looked kind of like a modern, circular, sports stadium. That was where they held the "entertainment" for the city. There was a story on the audio guide about how they closed the amphitheater for 10 years because of a fight that went on that got very dangerous. The Roman emperor didn't want there to be a chance for that to happen again. Sadly it that I wish I could go back and live in the time where everyone was alive and the city was full of culture. I could help those people preserve that culture for generations to come. 

Sadly it isn't possible but the best thing was to just take it all in and absorb as much as we could. And that is exactly what we did.