myceane and olympia

quick note: two weeks ago i went to... epidurous (i've just been informed by helana) and we saw the "most acoustically perfect theater in the world". very cool. even better- i sang bohemian rhapsody in it along with 4 other girls. good memories.

Last weekend was spent on a hot smelly bus. why was it hot and smell? well, when you're dripping wet and the bus driver tries to simultaneously warm you up and clear the fog you get a lot of sweating people, drying clothes, and humid environment. but it was sooooooooooooooooo much fun!

our first stop in our last weekend excursions was this coll small town with lots of history (don't ask me about any of it- i wasn't feeling well so i slept during the enire tour of the town). in the morning we left the town and we stopped at his venentian fortification and as we were driving up to it the rain, which had been drizzeling for the majority of the day, really started to come down with thunder rolling in over the mountain and lightning illuminating the sky. way cool. we actually had to cut our time short there and make a made dash for the bus. after driving for a few hours we drove through this badass little town that was built into the side of a mountain. it was so pretty i wish we could have stoppped.

About another hour after that we finally arrived at Myceane. It was really cool to be able to run around the ruins of a place that i've read about since i understood what ancient greek was. it was really amazing to just run up to the gate in the rain and stare up at the lion gates that have dominated such a huge part of my imagination of this place. there wqas this really collcistern that we all clambered into when the rain really started to pour. i along with the majority of the group decided to climb all the way down it. problem: it was comepletely pitch black. good thing for Nicola's flashlight. afterwards we made our way back through the storm to the museum and the treasury of atreus. treasury (well, tomb in reality just called treasury b/c of all the gold found in it)- very cool. museum- not so much.

the next day dawned just about the same as the day before so we spent our time in olympia sopping wet. but we all had good fun. some ran in the stadium and we stood in the tmeple of zeus.

i realize i need to put pictures but don't expect any until after the semester is over. i finished 1.5 out of 5 papers. *sigh* it never ends. also- thanksgivng/christmas update coming soon....