Gobble Gobble, Go Greace Lightnin'

That's right, I'm that big of a dork. In other words the title should read, Turkey and Greece.

In keeping with going backwards through our journey next up is Turkey. In Turkey we took a guided tour of Ephesus. It was really awesome. I think it was Shawn's favorite part of the trip as a whole.

In case you're unfamiliar with the Bible, Ephesus is an ancient city...remember a little book in the bible called Ephesians? They were letters that Paul wrote calling the people unto repentance. After seeing the brothel first hand and the "secret" tunnel underground leading there from the library you can see why. How stupid did these men think their wives were? No one caught on when their husband kept spending all his time at the library but didn't seem to be getting any smarter? Hmm...I don't know.

The stadium there was really cool too. Our tour guide, Tulay (pronounced July with a T) told us as we were walking the path there that many important people visited this theater in its time, when we walked there we were walking where Cleopatra, Mark Anthony, Caesar and even Paul had walked. Paul was even chased from this theater and he ran from his life. Below Shawn is on the stage preaching Paul style. I'm an angry Ephesian.

I could probably continue on about Turkey but we still have a lot of stops to visit so lets move on to Athens.

In Athens we just decided to figure it out on our own. We went to the acropolis and had a fun day just wandering around. It was awesome to see all of the ruins and the ancient Olympic stadium.

All over Athens there were these dogs that just layed there. I'm not exaggerating when I tell you they were EVERYWHERE. And they all looked mostly dead because they really weren't doing anything. Also, they all had on collars. Why so many seemingly stray dogs with collars? We have no clue.

We ate lunch at a fun spot right in the middle of the tourist area. There were accordion players aplenty. Our menus, which I forgot to take a picture of were so funny because this man brings out these two totally different looking children's books and walks away. Shawn and I just looked at each other and cracked them open. Yup, picture books but the menu was hand written on each of the pages, in English mind you but still, pretty funny.

We really just kind of wandered most of the day there, it was nice and low key. We got out of the super tourist-y spots and just sat in a square for a while relaxing.

Up next, Rome and Barcelona.