French Week in Italy, part 1

PompHEY GUYS
I spent this last week in Campania, which includes exciting things such as Pompeii, Herculaneum, and a bunch of other towns no one's ever heard of/cares about! The trip started on Saturday, when we visited Terracina. As a city built on a cliff over-looking the ocean, it should've been a beautiful place. Unfortunately, we spent most of it undercover or battling umbrellas in the wind, as it was raining quite hard. It was still pretty, just... in a gray way. After that fun experience, we continued on to Sperlonga, where Tiberius (I think) had a really cool dining room/fish pond inside a huge grotto. With the rain and fog and all, the grotto looked a lot like the horcrux cave from Harry Potter. By the end of the visit, I decided that a grotto will be one of the many features of the Roman villa I build. Just as soon as I become a rich Roman emperor.

This was in the museum. There's also a pope on the side I didn't get...

You can almost see Voldemort if you look closely

That afternoon we had an autoptic in which, as a group, we had to draw a plan of a small town we had never seen before. It was a painful experience. 

That evening, and for the next four nights we stayed at the Villa Vergiliana. It's basically the Centro, but in Campania, run by Franco's sister. While the food was amazing, and there were baby goats in the yard, it was quite an old building, and the bouncy bed and cold showers made the experience not as enjoyable as it could have been...
On Sunday we went to 'the Flesh-Pots of Baiae', an ancient Roman sulfur bath resort thing. It was cool, but by far the most exciting thing we saw was this UPSIDE DOWN TREE. Seriously, how is that even a real thing?

 WOAH

After the biggest lunch I've ever had, we went to the ancient site of Cumae, where we saw, among a bunch of ancient stuff, the place where Franco and his wife Pina would run around when they were 'courting'. Adorable. 

When we got back to the Villa Vergiliana, it was baby goat time! Here's a picture- no words needed.

So fluffy!!!

Monday was an Art History day. We walked around Naples while the art history professor lectured about different churches and such. While it was very interesting, it was also very relaxing- since I'm not in the art history class, I didn't have to take notes, and was able to just enjoy the sites and information without the stress of a quiz or a test. Unfortunately, apart from the old stuff, Naples is pretty icky. We had an unnecessarily long lunch break which was not the most fun.... ah well. Not every Italian city can be awesome. 

Well, that's about half of the trip. Since it's 11 PM and I have not done any work today, I'm going to cut this in half. I'll be back soon with more about Campania, and back less-soon with this week's adventures!