Roma! part 1

This is our second full day in Rome.   We leave for home  tomorrow, Wednesday.    You probably won't receive this post until after our return.

I don't know quite how to begin.  Rome is big, brash, busy and beyond real description.  If I listed all of the incredible sites we've seen in the past 2 days you'd understand why we're on a kind of sensory overload.  I've learned so much from our time here and know it will take me some time to "digest" it all.

Here are some photos from the last 48 hours.

Pompeii.   Destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius  in 79 A.D. Pompeii had been one of the biggest ports and trade centers in the Roman Empire.   Between 20 and 90 feet of ash covered the area during the 4 day eruption.

The coliseum at Pompeii 

Original fresco that survived the eruption