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Thought I would add some pictures of the first few days before continuing the Greek adventures of the past few days. Thats the parthenon. Pretty important.

That's me and Nike, who I am assuming is the god of running? and if not he should be. This is us being best friends and taking myspace pictures together. A little bonding with some greek gods, ya know how it goes.

This was the time I was trying to be creative and capture home life in Athens. We were given a nice walking route through some small residential areas of Athens and they were so stereotypically Greek. Very lovely.

On to the next day. This would be saturday, aka day 3 of the real part of the trip. We took a road trip with the lovely people we were staying with. This was great because we got to see other parts of Greece most never get to. First stop was the town of Marathon. For those of you who can't quite connect things, this is the town where a huge battle took place and then the guy ran the first marathon distance to Athens. Then died but thats not the part we like to remember. We first stopped at the starting point of the marathon, at the marker that says 40. Honestly I can't really remember what the significance of that is. Anyway we stopped here to have a little picnic of strawberries, bread, chocolate, and champagne. Romantic I know. We stopped at an archelogical museum, which was interesting but I was more into being outside in the amazing weather than looking at old pots. Whatever. Then we went to go to the marathon running museum, which was closed, so We took pictures with the statue of the guy who first ran.

Next stop Sounion (Aκρωτήριο Σούνιο), a town/ thing that looks like the parthenon but isn't. Actually it's the temple of Posidon and is on a cape that overlooks the Aegean Sea. Really beautiful site, which we celebrated with a bottle of wine at the top.

NOTE: to anyone traveling to Greece/I guess to only students: GREAT deals. Regular students get a great discount at basically everywhere and if you are a stdent in the EU, as I currently am, most things are free. and I LOVE free things.

Anyway after seeing the temple we got to go into the water/stick our feet in because it was so cold, and then sat down to an amazing seafood dinner overlooking the water.

I tried occtupus for the first time, and really liked it. Greek food is basically amazing. After dinner we took the long drive back to Athens and settled in for the night.

The best part about this trip was the relaxed feel we had. There was no worry about being quiet in the hostel or not having a place to chill. I really liked being able to come back and put on pajamas and sit on a couch or on the balcony and read or just sit around and talk. I didn't even want to go out at night ever because it was so nice to just sit at home and do nothing, becuase that is usually not an option on trips. Also being able to get up and lounge around. Miss that!

PLus the weather was absolutely AMAZING. 23C the entire time ther, which is mid 70s in the F degrees. Such a nice difference from Prague. I can't wait for summer!

So this was saturday. It was this evening that I found out my flight for sunday was cancelled. Therefore my blogging adventures for Greece continue into Day 1 of being stranded.