Saturday, October 27, 2007

Greetings From Greece....

The kids were off school this past week for fall break and as one of our final trips while living over here we traveled to Greece. We stayed outside of Athens in Marathon. The area had a large battle with the Persians in 490 BC. The Greeks were victorious and they sent their best runner to Athens to announce the victory, he ran the 26 miles then collapsed and died on the spot...see this is why we should not RUN!!

Here is the villa that we stayed in....we were on the lower level and had AMAZING views of the Agean Sea and the surrounding areas both during the day and at night.Parthenon ~ This was the epitome of ancient Greek Classical art, was built as a temple to Athena. The site is undergoing some preservation so there was scaffolding around a lot of it, but it was still a great thing to see. Take notice of the boys' height- they are BOTH taller than me now with Andrew a bit taller than Christopher.I will post more when we get back later tonight.

2 comments:

Diana said...

Welcome home today. Did you have any of the GREEK French Fries that they are sooo famous for:)

Unknown said...

Sounds like you had a lovely holiday. It sound like a lovely place to visit.