playtime with ellie!

 

while the rest of the group saw that silly little 'harry potter' movie hours and hours before the states.

you give an offering, your goat shivers, you go on your way.

last full week in athens, starting now. ahhhh!

Another early weekend morning and off to the Agora, ancient marketplace in Greece. Stomping around the ruins and a nice lunch with the group where we shared ten different appetizers and tons of bread and bottled water, as always. Dr. Kaplan brought us by her favorite bead shop where I went crazy buying beads to make key chains, and then to "The Loom" where I bought my first souvenir for myself, a big colorful tapestry made in Northern Greece. The new Acropolis Museum was next. Big and beautiful with a view of the Acropolis out the window and glass floors with displays underneath. The group split after the museum so Valerie, Katie, Dr. Kaplan and I went off to find the First Cemetery of Greece and the zoo inside of the National Gardens to make our sight reports more thorough.

The cemetary was huge, first of all. It may have been the same size as Hillcrest in Ft. Pierce, FL but the way it was designed made it seem to go on forever. It was actually enjoyable to walk through with lots of big trees providing shade and places to sit and rest, much different from the standard American cemetary which goes on forever in perfectly neat rows on open land. This is a cemetary for celebrities and important people, all of them Greek so many of the sites have elaborate tombs that include sculptures and even entire rooms dedicated to the deceased. We noticed many more pictures included also which to me was comforting.

Temple to Apollo

our view at lunch, up in the mountains

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