a dance competetion in the rain at olympia

The Peloponnese trip was great. Unfortunately, I have no idea where we were for most of the trip. It's not that my memory doesn't serve me right, it's just that I couldn't understand the tour guide when she told us and I didn't care enough to ask. I can tell you some of the important things that we did and hopefully that will hold your interest.

The first day we went to Mycenae, which was awesome! Actually it was just like another site that we've been to so far. We saw ruins and stuff. The most interesting part was the Lion's Gate, which has this big triangular shaped rock holding the arch up.

We stayed in a hotel in some small village in the mountains, which was nice. There was a nice view from the window in the room across the hall from mine. My room had a great view of our bus.

The next morning we were supposed to go rafting, but it rained and the river flooded so that fell through and we ended up going on a long hike through the mountains to see some monasteries. The hike really was awesome, though. I liked going to the monasteries because they weren't actually tourist attractions and it was very quiet. We broke up into two groups so that probably helped some. 'Twas good. After that we drove for a long time to Olympia.

Olympia ended up being great. For those of you who don't know basic word derivations, Olympia is where the original Olympic games were held (Athens had the first modern Olympics in 1896). It was raining pretty much all day and all of the ruins were outside, so at first that wasn't fun (and also why I didn't take a whole lot of pictures), but it ended up being a lot of fun when we got to the stadium. We got to run all the way down the track and back. Then Mark and I had a synchronized dance competition against LaRell and Cabot. Now, I'm not going to say that we were the first, but I'm sure it's rare for people to have a synchronized dance competition in the rain at the original Olympic Stadium (I feel like I could be a baseball commentator, just coming out with random obscure statistics).

Then we drove home.

On Tuesday, 12 of us went in groups of 4 to the school next door to help with the English class. That was fun. I had 4 boys in my group that were all 12 years old. We played a game.

Today we went to Delphi. It was pretty cool. It was just a day trip so we left this morning and then got back before dinner tonight. We saw some ruins and then went to the museum.

Tomorrow some of us are going to see Watchmen in Athens. I'm looking forward to that.

We're leaving on Sunday morning for another two week trip to northern Greece and Turkey. So there's that.