Today a group of us signed up to see the Acropolis and National Archeological Museum with SAS. Our trip left at 8 am and took us in a bus to the Acropolis. We walked up part of the hill/mountain to the main gate and got our tickets from the tour guide. At the top of some slippery steps was the Parthenon. It is currently being restored so there is scaffolding all over it and you can’t get very close but it is still magnificent. We walked all around the Parthenon and learned about its history as a temple to Athena. Parthenon is Greek for “virgin” and the building was constructed between 447 BC and 432 BC. There once was a giant golden statue of Athena in the center of the temple. From the Acropolis, the highest point in the city, you can see for miles and miles, just green hills, houses, and other ruins of temples to Greek gods. For example, the Temple of Zeus. It once had 104 columns but now only has 16.
After the Acropolis we went to the Archeological Museum and saw the mask of Agamemnon. For anyone who took Mrs. Hungerford’s English class we all know about that. It was pretty cool to finally see it in person. For lunch we went to the Plaka which is a market area near the Temple of Zeus. I had a lamp gyro which was fantastic. Once we made it back to the ship we grabbed our bags and headed to the ferry to catch a ride to Mykonos for the next few days. The ferry ride over is about 4 hours but it has airplane seats with a snack bar and gift shop. There are also tvs which play weird shows like Baywatch re-runs. There is a rumor going around that 65% of the SAS kids are going to Mykonos and from looking around the ferry, it might be true.
Once we arrived in Mykonos we took a bus to our lodgings which are called Mykonos Camping. We have a bungalow which is not more than some cement walls with bamboo for a roof and 5 camping cots. There are seven of us staying there. Math is not our strong suit. After cleaning up and getting dressed we headed out for the supposedly short walk to Paradise beach to hit up the club that was celebrating its 5th anniversary with some DJs from Australia. We enjoyed music and dancing until about 3 am and then found some gyros at a 24 hour snack place across the street. After a long walk back that included getting REALLY lost, we watched the sun rise from the beach at our campsite. We found some of our friends in our bungalow, they had crawled in through the window because I still had the key. I think Mykonos is going to be a memorable experience, no doubt about it.
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