Sorrento and Pompei!

Ciao!

This weekend Alex and I headed down the coast to Sorrento on Saturday and the Pompei on Sunday!   Sorrento is a gorgeous town in the Amalfi Coast.  Very charming!  We tanned, naturally, and drank some lemoncello--a perfect Sorrento day.

Then on Sunday we went to Pompei. Pompei is one of the places that I have dreamed of visiting since I was a 3rd grader and only increased when I was an anthropology major at Cal. I remember reading the story of how the city was covered with ash in a matter of hours and sadly, yet luckily for the future, stuck in that exact moment in time.  The ruins proved to be amazing as were the castes of the poor people who were frozen by the ash.  It was almost unreal to imagine that we were walking down streets that had been used by people in 79 AD!  Wrap your head around that!!

Such a great day--well until we attempted to leave Napoli headed back to Rome.  It is still a mystery to us, but all trains were immobilized--for hours nothing was going in or out of the station. Finally, a fast train came cruising in the station and everyone starting running around yelling, in Italian of course, with Alex and I barely (ok, completely) not understanding a thing.  We managed to gather that somehow the only train leaving was a fast train, we grabbed our stuff, booked it for the train and jammed into the aisles like the rest of the train goers.  It was a packed ride, but we made it back to Rome--something that did not seem like it would be possible for awhile.

At moments like those, I just imagine how easy it would be to understand what was going on and be able to ask questions in a language I know--but alas, we survived and I think our spirit of adventure/survival has been strengthened!!

GIANT lemons!