I Am Here!

I have made it to Athens!  Well I have been here for about a day and a half.  The internet situation is not what I was expecting it to be.  It is very hard to find free internet anywhere in Athens.  You even have to pay for it at the hotel, but it is pretty cheap so I will be trying to update as much as possible.  Unfortunately the wireless internet sucks as the hotel so I have to use the public computer which means that I will not be able to post pictures to the Blog.  So if I post picture from my plane ride later on the blog it was from posts I was trying to add earlier.  Enough with that stuff!  Let me talk about the food.  AMAZING!  That is all I have to say.  Last night we all went to a restaurant and Prof. Mook ordered a bunch of random things off the menu.  There was fried cheese, spinach pies, Greek salad, Cucumber yogurt sauce, and that was just the appetizers!  After that we got a variety of main dishes to all try.  All were good!  Then today for breakfast I had the hotels continental breakfast.  This is like NO continental breakfast I have ever had!  This is a buffet that has a good variety of things on it.  But I think the best part of the breakfast is that it takes place on the roof of the hotel which has an amazing view of the Parthenon!  Then for lunch and dinner part of the group went to some of the small restaurants in the area (and there are a lot of restaurants in the area). For lunch I had a gyro and then for dinner I had Pork and potatoes in lemon sauce.  Both were very good!  Today we where going to go to the Acropolis to see the Parthenon, but the city workers of Athens were having a strike today so we did not get to the Acropolis.  It looks like we are going to do that on Friday instead.  We did however get to go to the Acropolis museum which is not  located on the acropolis.  It was a very neat museum.  I do believe that this is all I have to say for now.  I will try to get the wireless to work with my phone so I can post some pictures!  Bye for now Taylor