Pompei

On our first day in Raito (Friday) we decided to head up to Pompeii and check out the ruins. We caught a bus down to Salerno and then a train up to Pompeii. It was an easy trip and we were in Pompeii pretty early. The trains and the buses run a LOT in the mornings. Pompeii was really cool to see. Lauren and I had visited an exhibit at the Minnesota Science Museum last year that described life in Pompeii and showed us many of the traveling artifacts from the site. So with that information already in our minds, it was really neat to then be able to walk through the space and imagine what life was like when all those items were in use in that place. We also thought it was really good that we had the information from the MN Science Museum since the Pompeii site was mostly the buildings and not really any of the artifacts. I wonder if at other times they have some of those things out because much of that stuff was stacked on shelves and locked up so you could see it a bit on the way by, but it would be really neat for them to setup a home as it looked before the explosion. We both really enjoyed this day.