Athens and Delphi

ATHENS:

Our visit to the Acropolis was definately the highlight of Athens! We had to climb up a ways to get to the top and it was quite slippery. I just kept remembering what happened to my mom last year on our trip to Spain, France and England. She hurt her knee and had a rough trip to say the least! I was so afraid I was gonna fall and hurt myself! I did slip a few times but managed to recover.

The Parthenon was being worked on so there was scaffolding all over it but is was still breathtaking!

The Temple of Posiedion....

This guy was a crack up! After we took our picture with him he wanted us to take a picture of JUST him. By himself. He was so funny!

DELPHI:

Delphi has really well preserved ancient ruins. It's on the side of a mountain and you have to wonder how they built it so long ago (thousands of years ago) with out backhoes and electric stone cutters! It really was amazing! This ancient cone shaped rock is believed by some to be the center of the Earth. Joeys in none of the following pix because he had to stay behind to take people with no luggage shopping to get some clean clothes. It was a bummer, for sure! I know he was disappointed.
The view was killer, too!

This didn't show up in the picture too well but a lot of the stones have ancient writings on them. Of course, it's in Greek which is really cool looking!


This is in the museum in Delphi. We got busted for taking this picture! Turns out you can take pictures of the artifacts but you can't be IN the picture. NO POSING! Man! It's so hard to obey dumb rules!!
Time to board the cruise liner! We were SO excited to get out of Athens and start seeing some of the Greek Islands!