Athens

My trip to Athens began on Saturday May 10th, Stephanie and I left Indy to go to Philly to connect our flight to Athens. Security wasn't a problem and we got right through with no problems!!! The problem however, was that there was a greek family on our flight who had young children who were screaming before we even got on the plane! When we got on, we were sitting in the seat in front of them! Needless to say, I was glad it was only to Philly and not to Athens!!!

Upon arriving to Athens, we found ourselves confused on what to do and where to go, but we followed the crowd and managed to find our way through customs and found our bags and exchanged money for Euros. I was disappointed to find that the money I brought with me from when i went to England years ago, is no longer in existance. They switched from pounds to Euros and I had forgotten about that!

After leaving the airport, we found the Metro train station and got on and found our way to our stop at Mexaxourghio. Our hotel was right down the street but we didn't figure that our right way. Upon coming out of the station we got turned around and we ran into an American couple from Austin who helped us find our way! We checked into the hotel and then went to explore the city. We went to Pireaus, which is a port city an there we were able to see HUGE ships! After our long day we came back to have dinner at the hotel and we had the best chocolate cake I have ever had!

Today (Monday May 12), we took a tour of Athens, through Hopin Tours. It was a tour of many of the main sites in Athens including Acropolis, here is a list of everything we were able to see:
The Panathenian Stadium
National Picture Gallery
The glass Runner
Megaron Concert Hall
National Archaeological Museum
National Theatre
Omonia Square
Open Market
Athens City Museum
National Historical Museum (Old Parliament)
Syntagma Square
Plaka Area
Downtown shopping center
Flea market
St. Nikodimos Russian Orthodox
St. Paul’s Anglican
National Park (ex Royal Gardens)
House of Parliament (ex Royal Palace)
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Evzones)
Iliou Melathron Numismatic Museum (H. Schliemann’s Home)
St. Denis Roman Catholic Cathedral
Neoclassical Building of Central Bank of Greece
Academy of Arts & Letters
University
National Library
Change of the Honor Guards
Zappio Congress
Temple of Olympic Zeus
Hadrian’s Gate
Dionysus Theatre
Asclepieum Medical Center
Herod Atticus Odeon
Areopagous (St. Paul Acts XVII on Mars Hill)

We that concludes our trip to Athens! Stay tuned for into on my trip to Jordan!

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