Past Frozen on Time While Italy Celebrates History in The Making On
While in Rome, we had a day trip scheduled for Pompeii. It was a really good tour…but it was extremely hot, and our tour guide was a bit distracting. But that is beside the fact. Pompeii was a bit eerie. It was a city frozen in time. People were captured doing what they were doing at the time of the eruption. It was a sight. Men sleeping, others seemed aware of their fate…strange.
Our trip was supposed to continue down to Naples, but their was a delay with our tour guide getting to the bus, so one guy, Jonathan, suggested we just head back to Rome so we could be there in plenty of time for the World Cup final game…and so it went, the bus headed back to Rome. (I hear I didn’t miss much in Naples)
We got back in plenty of time to get ready and rest a bit. Jessica and I were lone rangers because Scott, Jane, Melissa, Jr., Aimee, and Shannon had planned on going to Capri. So Jessica and I met up with Laurel, Gaby, and Jenny to go to the Circus Maximus to catch the game with the “Romans”. Just walking down there you could feel the energy; the people were so pumped up, dressed up waving their flags around. Once we were there we were greeted by a crowd of 60,000 fans (that later grew to over 120,000). It was a sight that I will never forget.
The game was fun to watch, their were two big screens and if you missed something you were sure to know if it was good or bad for Italy by the response of the crowd. The game went into overtime, and I decided that because of the size of the crowd, our group should try to get out of the middle of it and near the back…because win or lose their would be mayhem. So we all made our way to the edge near the street so we could make a run for it when the game was over.
The first overtime was over, and they were on to the second one. The crowd was getting very antsy, which made me antsy. The goal kicks were so nerve racking it was hard to watch, it was the final kick, the crowd was hushed, no blow horns, flags were steady…and they made it in. ITALY HAD WON. The crowd went nuts, things were being set on fire, people were hopping on cars waving their flags, and the people walking were hugging complete strangers. It was so much fun.
The city partied all night, but I had my share, and was tired from all the excitement of the day.
posted by Michelle @ 2:28 AM
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