just when you thought i was never speaking to you again..

Things around here have been pretty busy for the last few weeks so I haven't been able to make any updates. For anyone that doesn't know, we went on another 2 week trip that took us to northern Greece and to Turkey. We left on March 15th and headed to Meteora, where there are some pretty awesome rock formations that have some monasteries sitting all throughout. We ate our lunches on top of one of the cliffs and then headed in to see one of the monasteries. I have a feeling that the best place to get some descriptions about these places is to look at my pictures. They are kinda hard to describe. We stayed in Kalambaka that night, though. It is a small town at the base of the cliffs. At some point during the day we also stopped by Thermopylae, which is where the whole Leonidas and the 300 Spartans thing happened.

The next morning we left and headed to Berea, where Paul came in Acts 17. We didn't stay long here, just long enough to go and see the vima (step) where Paul might have stood when he preached outside of one of the synagogues.

After Berea we went to Thessaloniki, which is the second largest city in Greece (next to Athens, of course). We went to a museum (which is a huge surprise, I'm sure) and then Tim took us on a little walk around the city to see some old stuff. We were looking at some old baptismal pool when a bird pooped on my shoe. I apparently have pretty good reflexes because when I saw something falling out of the corner of my eye, I instinctively scrunched my toes, which is why I said a bird pooped on my shoe and not on my foot. Dr. Alice had some alcohol wipes to clean it off, though. Tim took us to get some ice cream after that and it was delicious. Then Jane did a back flip and sprained her ankle.

The next morning we left Thessaloniki and drove for a very long time until we got to Philippi. We didn't get to eat lunch until like 3:30, and when we did finally get to eat we only had about 10 minutes because we had a lot to do. We saw another theater, the marketplace, the prison where Paul and Silas might have been kept, and then went on a walk to the place where Lydia might have been baptized somewhere near Acts 16. We stayed in Kavala that night, and Tim took the guys to some coffee shop-like place and we played shuffleboard and drank tea. It was a lot of fun.

Then we left.