Day 19 - Back to the Mainland and off to the Farm

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So this morning at 9 Linsey turns to me and groggily asks, “Is it time to get up?” 

I look at my watch and reply, “What time are we meeting?”“9:45”

“Yep. We should get up then.”

So we get up and get ready in 15 minutes. Then we take another 15 minutes to pack everything. Then we head up to breakfast. After breakfast we go to the Massimo Theater to take a tour. We get there right at 10 and get our tickets. We then take the Italian tour instead of the English tour because we couldn’t wait 15 minutes because we had to get to the airport by 12 so we didn’t really understand a word. It was fine though because this British woman would turn and tell us a brief summary of what was said in the tour. That was nice of her, huh?

After the theater we got our bags and loaded onto the bus to go to the airport. We got to the airport and went through security and then had a little time to waste before we got onto the flight. During this time I hummed various songs seeing how long it took before Alaina was humming them too. It was really funny because she usually didn’t even know the song. I enjoyed that game a lot. I think I got 3 different songs stuck in her head between the beginning of our tour of the theater and the time we got off the plane. Soon we were on the flight settling in. This time we didn’t get a delay and so there was nothing special about takeoff or landing. We got off the airplane in Rome and hopped on our bus with good old, grumpy, smokes-in-the-bus-during-breaks Franco. We were only supposed to have a 4 hour drive to Paestum but with traffic it ended up being more like 5.5 hours. It was pretty nice though. I got a lot of reading done and just had some time to think and reflect on what I read. It was just so awesome to be able to kind of sort through some thinking. There is just tomorrow left really for the trip. We just drive on Friday and then we leave. It seems so crazy that it’s done.

We are staying at a farmhouse. It’s like a hotel but it’s in the country and we are in nice cabins. There was a queen bed and the girls decided to give it to me since I slept on the cot the first week. This is a water buffalo farm though. We won’t get to see any which is sad but all I can think of is that VeggieTales song, you know the one, “Everybody’s got a water buffalo, yours if fast but mine is slow. Where do they come from I don’t know but everybody’s got a water buffalo-hoo!”

Well, I have to present tomorrow. We are finally going to see Pompeii! I am so excited! I need to look over my notes again and make sure that it all works out when I go to say it. Night.