Bella the Ball: All roads lead to…more ruins

So on Wednesday we went to this old port town called Ostia. The city that's still there is so incredibly beautiful and quant you just can't keep from sighing about every thirty seconds. We went to the loveliest little church which actually used to be a big deal because the bishop of Ostia would consecrate the Pope so it was pretty neat to see it. The main sights in Ostia however are the castle in Ostia and the ruins of Ostia. We first went to the ruins which I was kind of disappointed with at first and then we just kept walking and then there was a big arena type thing that was still standing and I thought ok cool that's kind of neat but it's really just a smaller version of the Coloseum. However, we kept walking, and walking, and walking and we saw more and more ruins! We took time to just explore and the ruins extended on forever with some of them standing about three stories high! After exploring some we went back to see the castle which is crazy old and used to be a fortress in war time where the Pope would come and hide out. All in all it was a pretty long day but really cool to see everything and to get out of Rome and more into the country/smallish town type area. I promise that there will be more blog posts to come so I can catch you all up on my adventures but until then here are some pictures to tide you over.

There was really old flooring in many of the ruin buildings we saw. Many of them would tell you what the building was used for. This was the floor of one of the bath houses.