Mt. Vesuvius and Pompei!!

WHOA! TODAY WAS AMAZING....

Last night we hung out at the hostel and ate our first Italian pizza. They were amazing. And cheap! We had to listen to the two most sickening people in the world while we were eating them though, this American guy and an Aussie girl, both thought they knew everything about travelling and they always tried to have a better, more extreme story than anyone else. It reminded me of the SNL skit..... "Yeah, well have 17 cousin that live in outer space so i guess I am just a little bit better than you"..... ARGH!

Today we woke up early to head to Mt. Vesusius. We were informed we could not stay another night at this hostel, and if it didnt change by night we could stay there again. So we had to pack up ALL of our stuff and store it in a closet. Then no one knew about the 25 euro Campania Artecard that paid for all the transport and admission to Pompei and stuff. Some old man nearly had a heart attack trying to scream instuctions at me that were not the right ones. Finally we found a very very very nice man that sold the card and explained everything nicely to us. Then we took a train to Ercolano and took a taxi as far as we could up to Mt. Vesusius. Then we walked a brutal, steep 500 meters to the crater. Which was cool. It was filled with stuff, not as deep as a thought, and way larger. There was an amazing view of Naples from up there as well. There was steam coming out of the crater and everyone and a while you could smell the rotten egg sulphur smell. Sean said he could hear it whistling but I think he was just hearing Eric.

After that we took the train to Pompei. It was very AMAZING. Everything is so intact. It is was bigger than I thought it would be. It really is a city! We only had two hours which wasnt enough so we basically power walked for the whole time. We saw lots of amazing builings and really eerie casts of people suffocating from the ash. You can see the pain on their faces. We also got to see a large stadium, still well preserved. It was awesome. I reccomend that very highly to anyone that come to Italy. So not we are at a new horrible hostel and we might just get killed in this neighborhood. But I am hungry so here we go!