Athens, Greece

This was a recent statue built for the most recent Olympics in Athens - I loved it! It is supposed to be a runner


Athens was our next destination. It has a HUGE population, so when we got off the ship went through the city in buses to the Parthenon. We toured around and saw the gorgeous architecture. I still can't believe how detailed and intricate the architecture is when it was built so many thousands of years ago. After our tour, we were dropped off in a shopping area and I bought a cute, little bowl for my sister Katelyn and we got some delicious gelato. I got cheesecake flavor and I was in love!

Mykonos, Greece

We went to Mykonos the same day that we went to Santorini. We got back on the ship at about 1 pm then arrived in Mykonos that evening. It is a beautiful coastal town that is known for its night life. We ate at a delicious restaurant called Ava's Restaurant and it was the best food that we had the whole trip. My favorite was the salmon. I will admit, I was scared to order it because I was a bit wary from the other food that we had eaten since we had been in Europe. I went the safe route and ordered the spaghetti, but I tried the salmon that Katelin ordered and I wish I had gotten that! After dinner, we walked around the city and Walt bought the girls pretty necklaces. I bought my mom a cute scarf. I was so tired that night and I collapsed in my bed when we got back to the ship!

Santorini, Greece

We woke up early in the morning and looked out of our balcony to see this....it was so beautiful!
We took a boat from the ship to Santorini and got onto a chairlift thing to go up to the top of the mountain where the city is. We then went to rent 4-wheelers and cruise around the island!


The views were absolutely breathtaking and the water was crystal clear

We stopped in Oia, Greece which is the picturesque city that you picture with the white buildings and blue tops that you picture when you think of Greece. It was so charming and quaint!






I couldn't get over how pretty it was!



Our 4-wheelers were so much and we had a blast cruising around.
Tyler looks cute with his hat :)

We rode donkeys down the mountain afterward when we had to go back to the ship so we didn't have to walk so far. They were fun and this was one of my favorite places that we visited because it was so unbelievably beautiful!

Katakolon, Greece (aka Olympia!)

On day 6 we went to Olympia, Greece and it was AMAZING to be in a place so ancient where the Olympics originated. It felt surreal to imagine this place in it's glory with ceilings atop all of the large columns.


This is where the Olympians raced each other. They would down to the end then back...Tyler and I decided to test out a little race ourselves. It was funny because all of the tourists were running there and back, pretending like we were back in the original Olympic days!

There were several bases like the ones pictured above lining the path after the archway to Olympia. Back in the day, there were statues of Zeus, and at the base there were names of athletes who had cheated in their games and had been punished. These statues were reminders to all athletes to play fair.
Tyler is pretending to light the Olympic torch. This base is where they light the Olympic torch for the Olympics.
Above is a place where the athletes prepared themselves for the games. Across from this building was a large bath house.

Above is Tyler in the bath house. They all bathed together like one big, happy family!

It's amazing to think that all of these bases had large columns on them at one point in time.
Here I am standing inside a church in Olympia. They probably prayed to the Gods that they would win their events!

After we had our tour through Olympia, we went to a little town to shop around and tried a dessert they are famous for there. It was incredible to be there and picture what life would have been like thousands of years ago!