Vacation V

Tuesday,
We were up early and ready to go to Pompeii. The adults were excited but I think the kids, well they were less excited. We left our house and went to our friends and then we were ready to go. It was about an hour and a half drive to Pompeii from Paestum and we only got lost once. We arrived at about 10:30 bought our tickets and were ready to see Pompeii. The city was very interesting and everyone really enjoyed looking at all the ruins. It was very hot and so we were glad that we brought drinks with us. There was one thing I didn't expect, in the middle of the ruins was a little deli, a place to get drinks and food and use the restroom. We spent about 4 hours there and only saw about 2/3rds of the city. It was very large much large than I had thought. If we were to go back again I think that we would take two days to look around instead of trying to fit it all in one.
By this time we were Hungry so we set off to find a place to eat. Earlier in the day we had all decided to drive the Amalfi Coast which is just south of Pompeii and north of Paestum. So we headed off in that direction to find a Pizzera. Well we found one down this really narrow one lane road that lead almost straight down to the beach. The food was good and the kids could play on the beach afterwards. Then it was the drive home. The road was very narrow and there were sooo many scooters. Eric described it like this, think of a Formula one race, make the track about 2/3rd less add scooters, people and cars coming the other way and this is the Almalfi Coast road. Next time we'll see it from a boat!!
It was a very long day and we were all very tired but we got to see many things we had never seen before!