Italy 2016- Pompeii

After two days in Rome, we headed down south and stopped along the way in Pompeii. This was one of my favorite days, and one that I wished I had done more studying up on before we actually got there! Walking the literal streets that were created thousands of years ago and completely absorbed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius was amazing. I couldn't really believe that they let us touch stuff and walk on the roads!

Pompeii was also the only place where you knew that you were at a "tourist spot" but you weren't crowded with tourists at every turn. It really was a whole city! You could even see the cart tracks that had been carved into the rocks by all the wagon/cart wheels driving over those same roads thousands of years ago.

The casts of the people buried by the ash were completely haunting. This cast was in a fairly easy to find spot, so there were a lot of people there looking at it. But later in the day, we had wandered farther away from other people and a friendly guide led us to a whole group of casts, including one of a mother and child. I can't even imagine what they experienced.

The tile mosaics were AMAZING. The detail in the artwork was beautiful, and it was even more incredible that they were able to uncover it so many years later and keep it in tact.

Let's just say that when you are vacation with the Fischer boys, there is a lot of photobombing. The girls wanted to take millions of pictures and you always ended the day with a few random ones.