My Easter Holiday in Greece

So, this year I decided to take a typical holiday as usual to just some random place fairly close. You know, nothing really special, just to freakin Greece and to see the beauties of the ancient Greek Empire such as the greatness of the Athenian great structures as the Acropolis, the Oracle at Dephi, Sounion, and then a little pre-Athenian Empire work on the island of Crete at the Palace of Knossos where used to live King Minos and his Minotaur

So, these first few pictures are from the beautiful city of Athens from atop the Acropolis, one of the most important places in ancient Athenian history. This first place is an old theatre on the Acropolis where used to be recited the stories of Homer, Sophocles, and many more. You can imagine listening to these wonderful stories with such a great view of Athens as these.




These next few pictures are from atop the great hill of the Acropolis. And of course maybe you can recognize me and the awesome looking building behind me. Yea, that's also on the hill. It's called the Parthenon.

Awwww one of the greatest men in the world... and my idol, Alexander the Great!

Here's the Acropolis from a distance. And then at nighttime. I hear Pericles installed the great lights that light up the Acropolis at night

This next place is probably my favorite place that we visited. It's the Oracle at Delphi. At first you can see me with the Gulf of Corinth in the background. The next few pics are from the Temple of Apollo, which is where the Oracle resided and when people needed answers, they would travel over the vast mountains for weeks or months maybe just to get an answer. It was a really awesome and powerful place I thought. I could just sit and look at this place for hours and just picture the great importance this had on people's lives. It'll strike you dumb. If you look hard on the one picture you can see some really awesome looking person looking to the mountains!




So after Delphi we went to this great ancient spot on the coast. It was called Sounion, and this place as really awesome because you could see a beautiful sight of the Mediterranean also with the great Temple of Poseidon. This temple is very important to the ancient culture because it was the last part of Greece that the Athenians would see as they left on campaign or on some adventure and it would be the first thing that they saw when they would return. It's like when you are gone from Oklahoma for a long time, then you return and see the beautiful green fields as you drive down the Turnpike! It's a beautiful feeling.





These last few picture are from the island of Crete in the city of Knossos where used to live the ancient city of King Minos. You may recognize it the best because this is the place where they used to have the Minotaur in the labyrinth. Yuo can see of picture of the ancient freak of the world shown below in what experts believe to be a true description of it.
So, that was my wonderful Easter holiday. It was really fun and cool. But, I hope you got more sleep on your holiday than I, for I hardly got any, but then again, what's a little holiday if you are scroungin for a place to sleep at night. Maybe a dark alley, maybe a lobby floor. Hey, I'm a teacher, I always shoot for the cheapest option.