We got back to Athens Sunday night, met up with Michael and Mackenzie at an Athens hotel, and played cards to pass the time since the next flight they could find out was Thursday and our flight for Tuesday was most likely going to be canceled due to the volcano. Allison, Denise, and I still had to see the acropolis, so Monday we got up and checked it out—pretty cool…we climbed up, took a few pictures, attempted to take pictures without massive amounts of the no-doubt original 400 BC scaffolding, failed, then climbed back down. We went in a bunch of little gift shops around there just to kill the time, but it was kind of annoying because every store-owner in Greece talks to you in broken English for the entire time you’re in their store,
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