Road Trip

The start of our day was well, interesting. I woke up Melissa a.k.a Mom up at 6:30 am telling her we were late. I made her get out of bed and start getting ready. She got ready for about five minutes before I looked at the clock again and realized I was wrong.....it was 6:30pm US time!!! So we had only been asleep for about an hour...

When 6am did roll around we got our wake up call and made it out on time! We hopped on a huge tour bus (all 9 of us...) and headed towards Olympia! Our first stop was the Corinthian Canal which separates Northern and Southern Greece. They were offering bumping jumping, but we declined... Jumping out towards rocks at 8am isn't our idea of fun!

We drove a little bit longer and came to Mycenae. Its more than 3,500 years old and all that is left is the stones on top of a mountain, a burial site, and this beautiful gate when you walk in with two lions (now they have no heads, they were destroyed or fell off somehow.) An archeologist excavated the burial site and found all of the men were burried with gold masks on their faces... And we got to see one of the masks in the museum nearby.

Across the way, there was a beehive tomb for Argememnon. The tomb was amazing. I don't know how they built it back then with no heavy machinery!

We kept driving along passing thousands of olive trees! The countryside of Greece is gorgeous!

We stopped in the first Capitol of Greece, Naptleon. The city is located in the mountains and on the sea. There were sailboats everywhere, and a CASTLE built on the island in the middle of the ocean!

There has been something that has come to our attention... GREEK MEN LOVE SHORT-SHORTS!!! I mean these are shorter than any shorts I have ever seen.... Shorter than the JORTS (Jean-shorts) you can find on KA's on Fort Building Day!

Lots of driving has taken place today. After Naptleon we drove for 3 more hours only having one stop at a family owned coffee shop. There was the cutest little stray puppy there who looked just like a little Punky Brewster (my black lab).

**SWITCH TO MELISSA:**

we were sitting outside and the puppy was wanting attention... Jill decided she would try to see if the dog would respond to voice commands, such as "sit"

Jill commanded the Punky look-a-like to sit.

The whole group burst into laughter realizing that the dog most likely hadn't been trained at all, much less in English!

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Tomorrow we are seeing the sites of Olympia and traveling to Delphi! We hope everyone is doing well!

-Jillopolis and Melissaopolis.