It feels good to be back at home. Our first full day back was quite fun and productive. We got to see Luke and Heidi and the girls, as well as my Dad, Ruth, and Grandma. We ran some necessary errands, went out to eat for some mexican food.
Jet lag is killer right now, we were awake at 5:15 yesterday, and Jace did the same today while I managed to sleep until 6:30...
Day 5 – Athens
This day goes down in the books as “bad luck day.” For one, we got a terribly slow start. Despite all our resting the day before, I still felt very worn out. Then we went to another archeological site, walked almost entirely around the perimeter of it, and could not find the entrance. Once we gave up and said it wasn’t worth it – we found it, but we kept on walking. Fail. Besides, we had seen a lot of it walking around it anyway. Then, we made our way to another hill/small mountain that boasted some of the best views of Athens. This one had a funicular railway system to take you to the top, so I would be able to manage it, but by the time we got there, we had 30 minutes before the funicular closed. Fail again.
We went back to the hostel for a nap.
Then we went to the newly opened Acropolis museum. This museum was beautiful and very well done and organized. Bonus: since it was newly opened, tickets were only 1Euro. One of the things I liked most about it was this short film it showed about the Parthenon that began to give you and idea about how it looked and some of the details about the building. When reading some information about different sculptures, we were amused at the fact that some of them had their heads in the Louvre.
We had dinner at another nice outdoor restaurant in the winding corridor of shops, then walked some more and had ice cream for dessert. We then went back to the bottom of the Acropolis where there was a rock we “climbed” and watched the sun set over Athens.
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