ATHENS!

I'm so sorry it's been weeks since I promised to post my Athens day. Athens is always one of my favorite days. The history here is amazing! Well, we flew from London to Athens in the middle of the night and when we got to our hotel they messed up our reservations and had no where for us to sleep! So we had to walk down some sketchy roads in the middle of Athens at 3 a.m until we came to our next hotel. It was pretty scary but we were exhausted and ready for a bed, no matter what condition it was in lol. 

We started out the day at the "grocery store" to buy diapers and wipes :) After diapers we went to this really good Gyro restaurant and got some lunch, then we started the trek up the mountain to the Acropolis! 

The Acropolis is incredible! It's just crazy how old this history up here is! The Acropolis includes the Parthenon, the Temple of Erechtheum, a few major amphitheaters, and lots of other ancient sites.

Evangeline loved climbing around on all the rocks, walls, and crumbled pillars on the mountain.

It was SO hot today! (not to be our hottest day) but when your up that high and there is NO SHADE you get pretty sweaty lol

(sorry for the visual)

Once we came down off the Acropolis we went to the Acropolis Museum where they keep all of the artifacts they've found on the property. It was pretty amazing to see what has kept for so long! We spent a couple of hours there.

 After that we went to the temple of Zeus and the Olympic Oval 

(Evie was asleep so I stayed in the car)

Then we RUSHED back to the hotel and got our stuff and loaded it into 2 VERY small taxi's ha ha ha ha Luckily my dad is the bungee chord master and got us all put together and tied down tight 

Before we left I got a statue of my FAVORITE statue! (that sounds funny)

It's the Nike of Samothrace, she's the daughter of Titan.
The statue was made around 200 BC and was made to celebrate a battle at sea.
It's currently in the Louvre but the Greeks are really proud of this piece.
I got one and I love having on my shelf :)

 I would like to give Photo credit to my lovely sister Natalie. I didn't bring my camera today so all these pictures were taken by her :) THANKS NAT! xo

Next Blog will be Patmos Greece!