and it came to pass that there was no class in the morning, and thus mike and leanne ventured off to pompeii, to see the ruins of a once great city.

and thats very much what we did. mike didn't have class this morning cause it was just canceled since the begging of the semester. and because leanne doesn't have class on thursday mornings anyways we up and got on a train and went to pompeii.

this did require that we skip italian class, but we figured that it would be worth skipping on such a nice day to go out and see the ruins of an ancient city that was destroyed by a volcano that they say is going to erupt again soon. (don't quote us on that, its just what we've heard)

but we walked around pretty much the entire city, and it is just amazing. it just strikes awe in you to see this entire city, almost completely the same as it was about 2000 years ago. granted you can't see it all as if it were built yesterday, but you have almost all the walls, and streets and paintings, and pots. its incedible.

we were there for most of the day and walked and saw most everything that has been identified. afterwards we stopped in naples to go to the pizza place there that we love. we got into naples at about 2:45 and they close at 3:30. so we got into a taxi cab, and made it our there by 3:00. this was the craziest taxi ride we had ever taken in our lives, but we got there on time, and were able to eat and enjoy. we walked back to the train station to work off all the calories we had just consumed and them made it back home at a decent time so that we could sleep before leaving again tommorow.