Day 9

Today we had a bus tour and a walking tour of Athens.  We saw the Olympic Stadium, the Acropolis and the Parthenon.  All of it was amazing.   I am not going to lie I did dose off during the bus tour.  I enjoyed seeing the Parthenon and thought it was so interesting how, it got ruined.  First when the Romans took over and their main religion was Christianity the turned the Parthenon into a Cathedral and ruined the many pagan statues inside and on the exterior.  When the ottomans took it over, they kept their missiles inside of it and one accidentally went off, completely ruining the structure and the ceiling.  It so sad to hear how the people that enslaved the Greeks for so long did not care about this wonderful piece of history and just ended up destroying it, when it could have been in decent condition if it did not happen.  After seeing the Parthenon we went to a National Archeological museum.  We had a lot of free time when we went back to the hotel, so our group made use of the pool and got our tan on J.  That night we went to Monastiraki.  We had delicious gyros and went shopping.  I immediately went to sleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.