Spending the Morning in the Past

+JMJ+
I spent today in the ruins of a 2nd-3rd century society.

This is Ostia, the old Roman port.  Some of my classmates and I spent the morning exploring the ruins with our professor.  It was hard to wrap my head around the fact that these ruins are at least 1,700 years old!  That's just crazy!  There's nothing that old hanging around in the United States!

Some of the mosaics on the floors are still in tact!  Amazing!

Dr. Connell, our professor.  Class is this intense all the time.  Woah.

After Ostia, four of us took the train about 10 minutes farther and arrived at....

the Mediterranean beach!!  It was warm enough to take our shoes and coats off, walk along the beach, bask in the sun, and get some reading done.  It was simply lovely!