Running with the Gods

Hello from Delphi! We are here after an exciting day in Olympia!

In Olympia we saw the Sanctuary of Zeus, Zeus' Temple, Hera's (his wife) Temple... all sorts of amazing things! We saw where the Olympians Trained back then... and most importantly...

WE RAN IN THE OLYMPIC STADIUM!!! We were both in skirts/dresses, but hey, when will you ever run where Naked Olympians once ran again?! We say naked, because that is how they competed back then... and no women were allowed to compete or even watch!

As Melissa said after her run, "You can just feel the gods pushing you along!" We took it a little far...

We visited the museum on site where they had many of the statues that were once displayed on the buildings we saw, but were destroyed by earthquakes or other things... We saw tons of cool weapons that soldiers would leave on the alter for Zeus... really cool Corinthian style helmets! ((I WISH WE COULD POST PICS, BUT NO WAY TO UPLOAD!! ))

We ate lunch in Olympia, which is a very quaint town, and did some shopping... As we all know, Melissa is a pro and swindled herself into a few good deals.

A beautiful bus ride along the coast of Greece filled up the rest of our afternoon, stopping to visit sea ports and take in the views.

Melissa was very excited when we went to one of the stops.. There was a duck house on the water and there were 3 Aflac looking ducks! Two of them came onto the street a little bit later and she got a picture with them... we are definitely sending that to Aflac headquarters!! haha

Our bus driver might as well be Dale Earnhardt... I have no idea how he got us around all of the hair pin turns up the mountain into Delphi... There were times when I looked down and thought if we moved just a smidge we might tumble down the mountain...

night night.
J & M