Gaul

For those of you who do not know the city of Vienne, it is a city outside of Lyon that was once a huge Roman city. So naturally we had to go. This was the first trip we took our four legged friend on, and honestly I do not think he was content. He had to stay in our four wheeled vehicle the whole time, and occasionally got out to walk around a parking lot.

Yes, I took my rugby ball. I have gotten very attached.

Our first destination was the very modern looking museum of an ancient city in Gaul. This museum was INCREDIBLE, you actually got to run around and climb on ancient Roman ruins. Here are some pictures.

Me sitting on Roman couch people would lay and eat here

Corinthian column

My ancient jungle gym

Probably one of the few pictures you will find of my Mom and Dad (together) luckily I caught them in the act ;-)

The most interesting thing I deduced from this ancient Roman city is that the Romans really new how to live. For example the Romans had public baths that were not only for cleaning but they also had gyms for working out and they had a neat system to heat the baths. Another example, their houses had basements and to get to them you would go through a tunnel, break your back getting through the little door, and probably not help your back by doing whatever you needed to do down there. While in the out door section I accomplished 3 things.
1. Successfully saw an ancient Roman city with out hurting myself or any other of my fellow explorers
2. Probably climbed on, over, around, and through every single wall in that city.
3. Saved a kitten from the jaws of death
The second section of the museum was the indoor part where they had artifacts and models from the Roman society. Here are some pictures (that we probably were not supposed to take).

This is a painting of two Roman wrestlers

Wonderful mosaic


A model of a Roman port with a sea monster

Wonderful mosaic 2

This museum also has the biggest mosaic in the world, but by that time the man said no pictures. The next post is of this same trip, just a different experience.