And it was the best meal I had it Greece... Yum.

Athens
 
 
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Athens (Αθηνα) Day 2


 
The "Mask of Agamemnon" from Mycanae
Of course, it was raining again today. We were in Athens four times, and each day it rained. It didn't rain any other time on our vacation. Out came the ponchos, and we headed to the Athens museum, where they housed a lot of the treasure and art from all the sites we had visited. They had stuff from Mycenae, Knossos, Delphi, etc... It was kinda like a nice recap of our trip. Lin-Wei didn't want to take off her poncho when we got there, though, so as we were about to enter the guy taking our tickets looked at her, and asked her to wait a minute. He got the supervisor and they said that there was a little problem with what she was wearing... so she had to take it off in the end, anyway.

The museum took up most of the morning. We also went to the Greek musical instrument museum, which was free, and that was about as much as it was worth.

For our last evening we had planned on going up the funicular to get one last view of the city. We wanted to get dinner on the way up there, but as we climbed the hill we didn't really see anything we liked. I thought I had seen a restaurant up at the top, but I was sure. But like the Eiffel tower, I was able to convince Lin-Wei that there was probably food up at the top. But if there wasn't, she let me know that I would be, "dead meat!"

So the ride up was kinda nerve-racking, with the whole dead-meat thing hanging over my head. But there WAS food at the top, and we ordered some. Lin-Wei had, by this point in the trip, developed an addiction to Fanta Lemonade soda. So she had been ordering those with her meals. When asked what she wanted to drink she eagerly replied, "Lemon soda!" And when her drink arrived... it was Club soda with a lemon in it. They are very literal, those Greeks.

 
A last view of the Acropolis
We got some more shots of the Acropolis at sunset, but I thought they would light it up real nice and pretty like when it got dark, but it was not to be. We hiked down from the top, and all the way back to our hotel (passing the Parliament building and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier). It was a little surreal seeing that part of the city again now that we were staying in Athens... kinda hard to explain. But that seemed like an entirely different city the first time we were there.

A quick check in an Internet cafe for our flight tomorrow confirmed it was still flying, and with that we headed for bed, with sweet thoughts of work and mortgages filling our minds.