June 22: Archeology Museum and Greece v. Argentina World Cup game

We used the metro today!! For the first time it was so exciting. I was surprised how built up the metro was, there was no graffiti or destruction to any part of the metro. It is cleaned each day and includes pieces of the old city of Athens that were found when laying the foundation for the metro station. Our stop today on the metro was located at Omnia. The Archeology museum that we went to today was fairly straightforward. Tons of pots, pottery, urns, tombs, frescos, statues, masks, swords, daggers, anything and everything from all over the ancient world of Greece. It however although incredible was tiring after awhile to look at thousands of pieces of pottery and listen to a lecture about the geometric period or the archaic period from which they came. My legs grew so tired after awhile that all I wanted to do was sit down. All the bonze statues were amazing, so immaculate and carved with precision that I don't know how someone could construct something like that. Bronze although said to be the most prevalent is not found anymore from the ancient period as it has all been lost or reused for other materials. The Mycenaean period was the most fascinating to learn about as one of the oldest ancient civilizations. Their text, Linear B seemed super interesting. Of course there were many Kores as well as a superfluous amount of statues and pots, lots of pottery.

When we finished I kinda felt as though my legs were going to give out. We ate lunch at an amazing slouvlaki taverna- Leibathia. It had the juiciest kebabs and their tzatziki was soo good!! Afterwards we stopped at a small bakery and I got a cornu or French horn filled with cream for 2 Euro. Talk about delicious, it was huge too! About the size of my fist. After we had all satisfied our sweet tooth's to perfection we took the metro back by ourselves this time!!!!! We saw a few cute boys next to us on the metro and on the way up the stairs when we stopped at Akropoli there was a boy with a Holy Cross T-shirt on and Diana looks back with an astonished face and says, "Oh my gosh are you from holy Cross?!?" The boy replies, " No unfortunately, sorry to disappoint"..not a huge player of the day but it was funny that this was where the conversation ended. That

was all, no follow up, well I guess Diana had other things on her mind. Lol

I was lame when we got back to the Herodian and cleaned out my suitcase then went up to the roof and wrote all afternoon. It's a nice release from the social norm. Got ready to go out for the soccer game tonight. The world cup is going on here and it is so much fun to watch the games. The unfortunate part is that you have to pay for internet. Saw the game tonight and it was so much fun! Argentina won though, but we had a great time cheering them on nonetheless. We ate at Vitro, our usual spot and were more abnoxious than normal, let's just say that we got the crowd going. By the end of the game we had more bottles of Mythos on our table than the whole restaurant. It was somewhat embarrassing, not as much for me though because I didn't have any but we were proud to have done service to our Greek lifestyle that we have adopted. Yamas!!