A little warning...there are a lot of pictures on this page, so if you are only slightly more technologically savvy than your average Amish, you might want to start loading this page and then go have a bath...update your address book (because of course you don't have a Palm Pilot)...make dinner....there's probably laundry that needs doing...go for a pony ride...plan revenge on people that have done you wrong....
I have so many pictures of Pompeii caz it was so damn cool....and I have a digital camera with a 340MB microdrive that takes seemingly endless pictures. Pompeii is full of old rocks, but very cool old rocks. The one thing that Pompeii really proves is that even two thousand years ago Italians could not resist painting every damn wall...and I can only assume ceilings, but there really weren't any of those to judge from. You will see dead people...well actually not the dead people, but plaster casts of dead people.
Somehow scientists were able to re-create the dead people by making plaster casts from the bodies that were buried and encased in the volcanic rock...and then later decomposed. This leads me to believe that scientists have just a little too much free time. Surprisingly people didn't actually die by being buried in ash....or covered with molten lava (which I gotta think would really suck...and I'm thinking wouldn't leave much behind for scientists to make casts from). Mostly they seemed to have died from the toxic fumes while they were just going about there everyday business...still thinking the earthquake in AD 62 was the worse thing that could happen to them. In AD 79 God proved that indeed there were worse things.
Bad for Pompeiians....good for Pompeii going tourists....who of course never give a moments thought to the fact that this bad boy can go again any time.
