Nothing prepares me for how majestic the Parthenon is. We saw a few temples on this trip including Corinth (Apollo), Delphi (Apollo), Cape Sunio (Poseidon), and one planned in Aegina (Apahaia). But the Parthenon (Athena) simply dwarfs the rest. And it is so iconic, that standing there I imagine democracy (in its most rudimentary form exclusive of women and non-landowners, but still!!) or philosophers setting our course for the future, and it gives me the shivers every time despite the crowds.
We Facetimed with the parents so they could see it a bit too. We had press-on nose rings and tried to fake it like we got matching nose-piercings with the spending money my mom had given us to freak her out. She immediately saw through our fake but said it kind of suited us, so perhaps we should really get one sometime?
All of our breakfasts and dinners have been buffets provided by the tour. This afternoon included a lovely taverna lunch--where the maître d' worked hard on short notice to accommodate our vegetarian requests, a private car to Cape Sounio to see the temple of Poseidon at sunset, and then dinner by ourselves for the first time since we arrived.
Pic: Posing in front of the Parthenon; we're wearing matching blue (Go, Greece!) scarves.
7 comments:
Such an amazing and majestic site!
Maybe you SHOULD get a nose piercing!
Lovely. I love that you both wanted to play a joke on your parents at this stage of the game.
I absolutely thought you already had a nose piercing! I think you have a pierced nose vibe
We do have strong noses. Next sisters' goal?
Ha! I love "this stage of the game." Our grandmothers on both sides had traditional double nose piercings! Our parents' "modern" generation skipped it and avoided it for their kids... but it's all the rage with young people these days here and in India too.
StephLove, yes. I felt so, so lucky.
Aw! I feel that as a compliment! (I got an eyebrow piercing a couple of years back, but it went away.)
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