Southern Italy 2008 Part 8

We get up and prepare to head to Pompeii and spend our last two nights in Rome.  Nikki has everyone putting meat in bags for her to give to the homeless dogs in Pompeii.  The last time we were there they looked so pitiful.  When we try to pull out of the hotel, the polizia tell us we must wait.  There is a 5k going on.  A bunch of our group steps out of the bus and heads to the sides of the street to cheer the runners.  We got smiles, waves, air blown kisses, and thumbs up from most of the runners.  Then the men got silly and cheered a female passerby who was merely walking her dog.  This got everyone laughing.  We get into Pompeii and see our driver, Ottavio, from yesterday.  Inside Pompeii there is a lot of excavation going on.  Nikki already has a dog following her.  Farther inside everyone is enthralled by what is left behind in Pompeii.  We take a group shot.  Nikki finds three more dogs, one which turns down her meats.  We've all noticed how much more well-fed the dogs look.  The guide tells us that the restaurant now feeds the dogs and that they probably are served better prosciutto than what Nikki was offering them!  We laugh at this and I am relieved that she will probably never bug anyone to save meat again.....

It's beautiful today, of course.  It's a travel day.  We had balconies in Sorrento too, but it was too rainy to ever put them to use.  We venture to Naples where we've convinced Jane we MUST stop for pizza.  She is a bit horrified that after all of the beauty that we've seen, this is where we want to stop.  But this is coming from the same group who nixed Syracusa and Ragusa.