greece

greece was wonderful. a lot of things were closed friday evening so we walked around and saw some the olympian zeus temple from the outside, then played in a park. they had the best park ever with lots of wonderful play things that would never go over in america.

here we are playing




ate a delicious greek, meal of lamb and rested up for another day. saturday we walked to acropolis hill and saw the famous parthenon. it was really intersting comparing the greek temples to the roman ones i am surrounded with daily. the greeks built their structures in the round and used marble throughout, whereas romans were only concerned with the front of buildings and the surface looking nice. so in rome, i'm used to seeing the inner forms of structures of brick and gray rock. in greece we actually saw white marble so you had more of an idea what these temples really looked like.

[from acropolis]








probably walked a good 10 hours after crossing town to the archeological museum where we saw some sculptures and artifacts from the year 5000BC. unbelievable. i am amazed at how advanced the greeks were and how our minds were created by God to work. amazing.

we finished off our trip on sunday at the market. walked for hours going back over the same streets i swear! everything looked the same. tried some coconut sticks and a greek pita. we did pretty good for being surounded by greek letters and not really knowing what was going on. i like greece. it's pretty neat.

more pics from the weekend.