did you vote?
well, here are the results...
my memory cards said i took about 1400 pictures.
BUT, i narrowed it down to about 800 for my web album (coming very soon!).
i will be attaching a link to my web albums. i am just working on the captions. there are two parts. part one should be ready by tomorrow and it is perfect, because it just goes up to the end of Pompeii!
Next, I will have to update my blog entries so I can then give you the visual with the second part of the photos!
Monday, June 23, 2008
the last bit about naples
just to finish up. must go in order and cover everything!
after the amalfi coast, we went to Pompeii.
wow. that was very cool. it was a beautiful city... in the looming shadow of a huge volcano!
it was so exciting to see it. it really was like getting a glimpse into the past. our guide showed us how to tell if we were looking a store or a home. the stores had a groove on the threshold that held a sliding door.
the volcano buried Pompeii under many meters of ash and pumice on August 24, 79 (that's right. the year 79!!), and it was lost for nearly 1700 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1748. It had been a thriving city and a great example of life in the height of the Roman Empire.
there were a lot of stray dogs in Pompeii. i wish i had taken pictures of them - at first i thought someone had just brought their dog with them or something. after seeing a bunch of them, i was curious! turns out it is kind of a thing. the dogs of pompeii. so, if you ever visit, you can bring them some food.
i really loved this port. all of it. i will be coming back to drive the amalfi coast again and will have to visit the ruins of Pompeii again, too!
after the amalfi coast, we went to Pompeii.
wow. that was very cool. it was a beautiful city... in the looming shadow of a huge volcano!
it was so exciting to see it. it really was like getting a glimpse into the past. our guide showed us how to tell if we were looking a store or a home. the stores had a groove on the threshold that held a sliding door.
the volcano buried Pompeii under many meters of ash and pumice on August 24, 79 (that's right. the year 79!!), and it was lost for nearly 1700 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1748. It had been a thriving city and a great example of life in the height of the Roman Empire.
there were a lot of stray dogs in Pompeii. i wish i had taken pictures of them - at first i thought someone had just brought their dog with them or something. after seeing a bunch of them, i was curious! turns out it is kind of a thing. the dogs of pompeii. so, if you ever visit, you can bring them some food.
i really loved this port. all of it. i will be coming back to drive the amalfi coast again and will have to visit the ruins of Pompeii again, too!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
on to naples!
ok, i know we are back home now and everything, (sorry to ruin the ending of the story... and the jensen family all returned safely to wisconsin and lived happily ever after... after they got over their jet-lag!) but i still want to blog about all of the places we went!
so, naples. the coolest thing is when we woke up and went across the hall to mom and dad's room (we were on the inside of the ship but their room was on the outside!) and looked out over the balcony and saw...
Mt. Vesuvius!!!
very cool. big, black, ominous. active volcano!
so, our tour guide in naples was hands down the second best guide wendy and i have ever had. we had this really cool guide in the highlands of scotland who acted out battles for us and was dreamy.
anyway, manuela was the second best guide ever. she was amazing. she warned us right away in the morning that we were going to be on a tour bus with her all day and that she was going to talk the whole time. she was very funny. and we really were on the bus most of the day.
we drove along the amalfi coast (sorrento peninsula) in southern italy. about 4 towns built into the cliffs overlooking the med. crazy beautiful. the roads were very narrow and our bus driver was phenomenal (he was a local). we spent a lot of time stopped on the road, waiting for traffic from the other direction to clear so we could proceed. manuela let us get out and take pictures, though. and she even got out and started directing traffic once.
she was also super gossip-y. she told us all you could learn about people just by looking at their laundry... mostly you could tell if they were a good housekeeper or not by how they hung it.
okay, this is getting long. more later... i still have to tell you how cool pompeii was!
so, naples. the coolest thing is when we woke up and went across the hall to mom and dad's room (we were on the inside of the ship but their room was on the outside!) and looked out over the balcony and saw...
Mt. Vesuvius!!!
very cool. big, black, ominous. active volcano!
so, our tour guide in naples was hands down the second best guide wendy and i have ever had. we had this really cool guide in the highlands of scotland who acted out battles for us and was dreamy.
anyway, manuela was the second best guide ever. she was amazing. she warned us right away in the morning that we were going to be on a tour bus with her all day and that she was going to talk the whole time. she was very funny. and we really were on the bus most of the day.
we drove along the amalfi coast (sorrento peninsula) in southern italy. about 4 towns built into the cliffs overlooking the med. crazy beautiful. the roads were very narrow and our bus driver was phenomenal (he was a local). we spent a lot of time stopped on the road, waiting for traffic from the other direction to clear so we could proceed. manuela let us get out and take pictures, though. and she even got out and started directing traffic once.
she was also super gossip-y. she told us all you could learn about people just by looking at their laundry... mostly you could tell if they were a good housekeeper or not by how they hung it.
okay, this is getting long. more later... i still have to tell you how cool pompeii was!
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