Athens, Greece

Well....we made it. This is officially our last stop on the cruise WHEW! We were let off in Athens and spent two days exploring the city. Unfortunately for us the city was in a bit of an upheaval when we arrived. The people were protesting the financial situation the country was in and staged several demonstrations which ended up turning violent a few blocks from our hotel. Even though this caused a bit of stress on our part (we had only two days in the US before leaving the country again!!) we made it out of the country without a problem. The air traffic controllers were "walking off" the job in the morning, would come back to work in the middle of the day, they walk off in the afternoon. We were ok because we had a mid day flight. It was delayed a bit which lead to us sprinting through the airport in Germany and having to wait forever at security due to the lines (think Home Alone) but we made it back to America with two days to spare so Chad and I could do laundry. Ok really I did the laundry and Chad laid in bed sick....poor thing.

              I really enjoyed Greece. The people were kind and passionate about what was happening in their country. There was so much history to be seen around every corner and the food was delicious! Who doesn't love chicken and hummus?

Temple for the godess Athena

Random!! Could see this outside our hotel window!

The Acropolis!

Meat market! love going to these

double decker tour bus

Acropolis....think those building frames were there originally? haha

The theater and view of Athens :)

Walking up to the acropolis

View from the top! City could be seen in each direction!!

Greek flag!

Ah Athens you are beautiful!!

Some amazing runis

Mini Greek pepsi

A police bus for catching lawbreakers

sunset over Athens

Our staircase....the elevators were so creepy and tiny that I lugged my suitcase up and down these!!

Protests

Strange sign

Protestors

super crowded where the protests were

A yoghurt shop similar to our frozen yoghurt places with toppings and everything!

Mars Hill

Acropolis with Mars Hill

Shopping!! My favotite! They had some amazing shopping alleys

get sandals made to fit your own feet!!

For Sandie :)

A mosaic at some ruins in the city

this was spray painted all over the city

Meat market!

Yum! At least these ones are refrigerated!

all kinds of dried fruits and nuts

snails!!

sausages!

African grey!

anybody want a chipmunk for a pet?

Tons of birds in this square

Whew! Well that was fun :)


~N