We had a full day once again. We started off at a museum in Arta, went to a funerary monument, stopped at some new excavations in Arta of a town, still in Arta saw a temple to Apollo, then moved on to Ephyra and the Nekromanteion (this is where Bob gave his speech, which was really well done, and definitely well liked - more on this at a later time), then to see some churches, and finally to a large settlement called Elaia. It was a full day. After the settlement, we drove back down the mountain it was on and stopped at a little cafe where our leader bought everyone either a drink or an ice cream, any guesses on which one I had? We sat around as an entire group and just chatted. It was cool. I will post pictures of all of these sites with details at a later time.
Also, sorry in advance, but I have more animal pictures today. There are a large number of stray dogs and cats around Greece, and we keep encountering them and I think it's awesome every time. Maybe that's just because I now have a dog, so I enjoy them more. On a sad side note, our pup was bitten by another dog today, and it's hard being away from him.
Funny animal stories from today:
Bob had to give his presentation today, and to get to the
site was quite an uphill hike. This dog followed us all the way up the hill
then proceeded to walk onto the site then lay down for Bob’s presentation;
however, after about two minutes, he got up and left. I thought it was quite
rude, but maybe ancient architecture just isn’t his thing.
A man who works on the digs in Arta showed us a few
excavation sites, and one was a temple to Apollo. As he is taking us into the
site, he says “Be careful. This site has an infestation of (At this point we’re
all getting nervous. I’m thinking cockroaches or some sort of nasty bug, but
then he says…) turtles. We all look at each other and one person says “I wouldn’t
call that an infestation.” Then we all immediately start running around trying
to find the turtles, and the guy starts laughing and tells us “you guys are
supposed to look at the ruins”. After getting lots of turtle pictures, I did
tell the guy I thought the runs were cool too, and he laughed. There was also a
dog trying to get in on our temple action today.
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| baby turtle |
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| big turtle |
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| big and medium turtles |
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| dog peeping at us |
While we were looking at an old church ruin, there were two
younger dogs that kept running up to us for pets then would chase each other
around and run back up to us. During the entire presentation, there would be
random bouts of dog chase right next to us.
At our museum this morning, there was a dog pack. We counted
8 in the parking lot. When we left the museum, one wandered up to me to see if
I had food. I did not. So she left and went around the side of the building.
Next thing I know she comes running back out with a loaf of bread and trots
around showing it off. Then she goes over by a rock to eat it, but another dog
follows, so she runs away. Then she finally finds a spot to eat her loaf in
piece or peace.... depending on how punny you want to be.
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| dog with bread |
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| dog eating bread |
This morning I wake up to a rooster crowing, and I think to
myself that whoever’s alarm clock that is needs to turn it off and the walls in
this hotel are super thin. Then I realize as it keeps happening that the noise
is an actual rooster, and not a phone. #ForgotIWasInASmallTown
I may or may not have mentioned before that where we stay in
Athens, we have separate twin beds, but we just push them together. We were
really excited for this field trip in which we could once again share one bed,
and there would be no falling into a crack. However, even though we’ve got the “single
bed” room, 3 out of 5 nights so far we have had two single beds….
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