Jumpin all over the world

Hey there from Olympia! Once again I have wifi. Today we saw alot of ruins and went to two boring museums but it was nice and hot. We got to see one of the ancient theaters and went all the way to the top and could hear people at the bottom perfectly. It was so cool. We also got to see where king Agamemnon ( the king who went to battle against the Trojans in the trojan war over Helen) lived. His palace was in- guess what?- ruins.  But they have an idea of where the bathroom was that he was murdered in. And we got to see his tomb which was a beehive tomb. That just means it was sort of in the shape of a beehive. That was pretty cool too. Today was a good day but we were in the bus too much and tomorrow is a full day in Olympia with a 6+ hour drive back to Athens. Busy busy. I think tomorrow will be the halfway point for being gone so that's a plus because although it's beautiful and wonderful here I miss home terribly. I'll still try to love Greece as much as I can while I'm here, I may never go back...

From Greece with love,
Bri

To walk in the footsteps...

Today we got to walk in the footsteps of The apostle Paul while we spent the day in Corinth. We saw the place Paul was tried in Corinth and a possible place where the synagogue was. I was amazed because the ancient city of Corinth was literally buried by dirt and things were built over the top. I cannot fathom why a city would just be covered and built over. Apparently Seattle is the same way. So all we were able to see were the excavated ruins, which were still cool but hard to imagine in their former glory, bustling with people. Anyway we also saw the ancient temple of the goddess Aphrodite. And some pretty vulgar and disturbing things went on in her temple. Afterward we drove to our hotel and had two hours to get settled and ready for dinner. I had what they call here spaghetti in the oven which is just baked spaghetti with tons of cheese and ham on the top. So good! Tomorrow we'll be going to alot of places with Greek names. Then we end up in Olympia, bit hopefully I'll have wifi to tell you all about he Greek places tomorrow!

From Greece with love,
Bri

So I haven't written in a while an here's why...I feel I can say why now because all is well. I left ali's iPod on a bus and dissent have it or Internet for three days but now it's back! Today we head o Corinth and I'm not sure what were doing. The bus is here so I have to go more later!

Lovely Patmos

So we've spent the last two days exploring the island of patmos and it's been absolutely wonderful! The water is so so blue and the skies match, it's like a paradise. This was the island where the apostle John was exiled and all I could think was that I would gladly be exiled here! Today we've gone to a nunery and a monastery and to the cave where they think John mightve written revelation. Now we just get some time to relax. At 11:55 pm our ferry will take us back to the mainland and well get there around 6 am

So right now I'm laying by the pool basking in the wonderful sun. It's not too hot and it's not too cold. We are now on the island of Patmos and today has been a relaxing day. We have explored the island a little bit and got some great pictures. I'm so sad I can't upload them to show you all. I had some great Greek pizza for lunch complete with olives, feta cheese, and tomatoes I don't like tomatoes but this was wonderful. All we have left to do today is eat dinner and listen to a 20 min lecture. So thAts all for now!
From Greece with love,
Bri

History and politics

Right now I'm on the boat. We're going to the island of Patmos and we're staying in a hotel so it should be fairly nice. so far, and I hate saying it, what we've seen is kind of boring. We went to this big hill which was actuallly a tomb from a war on Marathon beach in Greece, so that was kind of cool. I mean under that hill of dirt and stuff was human bodies. I think I'm kind of morbid like that, I find that stuff fascinating. We also went to the US embassy and learned about the political and economic stuff. Fun fun. Tomorrow we'll be....well I'm not sure. We'll get to patmos at like 2 in the morning and sleep i think. Maybe we'll be going to a monastary and maybe to the beach. I'm really not sure. The weather is a little chillier than I thought it would be, and right now all of the swaying of the boat is really weird. I don't normally get motion sick, so we'll see how I do. We still have 4 hours to go. I think I'll sleep a bit too. The wildflowers are beautiful here, poppies and these purple flowers everywhere. Oh and I got a picture of a horse to show Joe's little sister Aubrey. I also noticed them twitching and want to know why they do that. She'll probably know.
With love from Greece,
Bri

Day one in Greece

So it's 9am and we just hAd a wonderful Greek breakfast filled with bread and. Fresh fruit and pastries.we arrived at the cosmovision center, a camp in Greece, our main home base last night around 6. I crashed around 9:30. And slept so well. TodAy we're heading to Marathon, whatever that is, I'll tell you all about it later. Then we are going to he US embassy.after that we will be getting on a boat headed to the island of Patmos, where John wrote the book of Revelation. We will overnight on the boat and arrive in Patmos at 2 am. And we'll be there two days. That's all for now!

From Greece with love,
Bri