A trip to the Parthenon

Me and Dad at Parthenon

View from Parthenon

On Thursday, June sixteenth I went to the Parthenon. On the way to the Parthenon I threw rocks at pigeons, and ran ahead of everyone else. When I made it to the top Papa and I saw what looked like an outpost. I came up with the idea to go to the outpost and see Athens from one of the highest peaks there.

After a long time of me and Papa sitting around at the Parthenon my dad and my grandmother decided to come up.

Exercise!! Run up to the Parthenon!

While we were all on top we found some reading glasses. Soon after we went down and gave them to the man who gave us the tickets to go to the top of the Parthenon.

 

Archaeological Dig beneath museum

Before we walked up to the Parthenon we went to the Acropolis Museum.  In the museum we saw archaeologists doing an excavation of an ancient neighborhood of the city.  The museum also had glass floors that let you see the ruins of the neighborhood that you were walking above.  Also as the museum we saw a video of how the Parthenon was constructed and also how it was destroyed.  The video said that when the Parthenon was new that all the carvings near the top were all painted very bright colors.  That was probably very beautiful to see.

Oldest amphitheater

Concert Amphitheater

While running and walking up to the top to the Parthenon we passed 2 old amphitheaters.  One was really old and not much was there except all the steps curving up the hillside.  The other amphitheater was built for a Roman general named Agrippa.  Today they play music there sometimes.  There is a new stage and big speakers.  You can buy a ticket and listen to a concert.  

Lunch near the museum

On the way back to the boat we all got famished and decided to eat at a restaurant. At the restaurant I had fried calamari, Tutu and Dad had gyros, and papa had some of everything we had. Then we went back to the train station to go back to the part of Athens we where in. When we got out of the train station it was raining extremely hard, so we decided to take the bus back to the harbor. When we saw the bus we asked if we could buy some tickets, but you had to buy the tickets at a nearby tiny store. We checked 3 tiny stores then tried one more and we got one of the last tickets there.

Papa, me and Dad at the Parthenon