Delphi

Greetings!
Last night we had a wonderful dinner at this beautiful little restaurant overlooking our neighborhood. It has all this outside seating with these big red umbrellas. The menu was all in Greek but the owner was so sweet and read us everything on the menu in English! He also brought us free olives and dessert! Usually Greeks aren't this welcoming haha.

This morning, at 7 am :(, we headed to Delphi! It was a three hour bus ride but we stopped half way through so people could get breakfast and coffee. I have yet to buy coffee for myself and I'm so proud. It is so good though, I may have to break down at some point.

The drive was very beautiful. We passed through these sweet little villages full of terracotta roofed houses and large patches of rocky forest. Greece has the most variety in their landscape! We drove through these tall mountains that had these huge cyprus trees all around. It was still pretty dry but the gorges were so beautiful. We saw the Temples of Apollo and Athena and also the Athenian Treasury and the Theatre and Stadium. We also saw where the Oracle of Delphi made her predictions.

That stuff is messed up. These poor young girls would basically get drugged up, sit in a dark cave for three days, and then emerge to answer all these peoples questions about whether or not they should go to war, if they should marry so and so, or if they had the right to kill their neighbor for stealing their chickens. I'm really glad I'm not an oracle! There were also only seven days out of the year people could come with their questions so it got really busy!

We walked up this very tall mountain to look at the theatre and the stadium and I felt like I was in a text book! The theatre was beautiful and had great acoustics, we tried it out haha. It also was looking out onto this gorgeous view of the mountains. I wish we had outdoor entertainment like that! The stadium was very cool too, that's where they did most of the Pythian games every four years.

Tomorrow is Aegina!

New pictures from Delphi: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=173592&id=590541644&l=397ea26c22