Athens, Greece

From an email to my dad... from Athens, Greece & the discovery of LEGOS:

Mom and i are here at an internet cafe, waiting out a rain storm that just came in!


we came out of the the National Archaeological Museum and bam! dark clouds swirling, thunder, and we tried to head to the metro, but saw an internet cafe, so ducked in, just before the rain came down! its clearing up a bit now, but its good to take a break.
thanks for your email; mom says hi!


we're having FUN!!!!! went up to the acropolis, looked out over the whole city of athens, and saw the cool pillars and the ocean and it was BEAUTIFUL weather - sunny, balmy breezes, probably 55 in the sun, and the sky was all kinds of blue colors... gorgeous.


athens is quite a HUGE city, tons of cars, buildings, streets, buses (mom says, electric street cars, the buses are attached up top to wires), but it was fun to get up above and see the city sprawling out below. and to see the ruins!!


we are staying in a nice hotel last last and tonight, which is a great blessing - and we had breakfast overlooking an amazing view of the acropolis!! (the Acropolis is a hill with an ancient wall up on it, like a fort made of yellowish bricks, marble!, and has a bunch of ruins up there - the parthenon, which is a flat marble structure w/ lots of huge pillars. They're doing a lot of restoring, you can see the new white marble contrasting w/ the older yellow marble... and guess what? 


we found out where legos came from! The ancient Greeks invented them!!! The pillars and roofs have groove and circular "pegs" exactly like LEGOS, that "snap" into the other pieces of marble to help secure the buildings!! wow. There was also a really cool looking ampitheatre, all of MARBLE. you know how people like to have marble kitchens/counter-tops, and that is really fancy? well, here in athens, they make even some of their STREETS in marble (bricks of marble or huge slabs in the door ways, etc! amazing, huh?)

God gave us a gift of wonderful wonderful weather this morning!!!

Its really really fun to have mom here with me. Just laughing and walking around and joking and talking... and yes, its really nice.

We'll probably head to Corith tomorrow, and maybe to the islands on Tues to see what we can find!!! Its going to be a great week!!!

love,
ericka and rachel :)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE!!!
May you all be able to take some moments to thank God for whatever.
i'm so glad to have my mom here to experience Greece with me!
Cool places are nice, but relationships, family, God... all of these are better!
Love and Blessings,
ericka (and rachel - my mom!)