Pompeii

Diane and I went to Pompeii a couple weeks ago, it was disgustingly hot out, but we had a good time. The city was much bigger than I expected, but we saw most of it (I think.) Except the frozen people, we couldn't find those. I was ok not seeing dead bodies preserved in the rock that killed them and wiped out the city. Diane was disappointed though.

From the top of the amphitheater, looking out over part of the city. This is the tiniest little portion, that whole place was massive.

 Amphitheater. The acoustics in that place are amazing! If you stand in the center of the stage and clap it's amazing how well you can hear it. They really knew how to build a theatre. Although, if we went back to that I know quite a few audio techs that would be out of a job, so I guess we'll keep the modern designs.

They even had a second stage right next to the big theatre! We didn't really go into this one, but I'm sure the acoustics are just a good.  

 Not sure what this was, but it was pretty :-) 

 We took a guess that this was their arena type venue for gladiator type events. They didn't have any signage, so we just made stories up about a lot of stuff. 

This was one of my favorites. It's amazing that this wall mural is still in such good condition after thousands of years and a volcano erupting all over the city. This was in a huge house which had paintings all over the walls. The colors were great, reds and yellows everywhere and this was tucked away at the back of the courtyard. 

This was the view as we left the ruins.

There were lots of pedestals and broken columns and such, so naturally Diane and I decided to be ridiculous statues on top of them. She posted more on Facebook, but this was the only one on my phone. I've got another where I'm falling over, it's pretty hilarious but I'm not posting it.