Pompeii was amazing! Kendra, Kelly, Farrah and I got on a 7.10 train to Napoli (Naples) and then transferred to another smaller train directly to Pompeii. We weren't sure exactly where the site was in relation to the train station, so we booked a tour of the site right away and stopped to grab lunch. The tour was alright, but I don't think he showed us anything that we couldn't figure out on our own with a map, and for some reason he really liked to point out the erotic paintings and anything that had any relation to sex. "Sexy time!"
I had no idea that the site was going to be so large! Apparently its around 5 square miles, and we walked around what felt like all of it. Only something like 30% has been excavated, which is really amazing because what has been excavated is huge.
Although visiting Pompeii was great, it took all day and I was exhausted when we got back at around 6 pm. The girls and I got pizza, and convinced Fran and I to leave Rome and go to Cinque Terre, which is about four hours north of Rome and on the coast. We cancelled the rest of our reservation in Rome (luckily I got the cancellation policy for 2 extra euros!) and booked a hotel in Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre (there are five small towns, the big thing is to hike in between them along the coast).
A perfectly preserved mosaic dedicated to Venus. 
Me and Farrah. See how much further that street goes back behind us? 
Me in the entrance to some baths.
A bunch of plaster molds were made of the bodies that were captured by ash and gasses from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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