Brown Bread to Boot!

Greece Day 2
7:30 early to be exact. With a day full of walking and site seeing ahead!
First stop. Acropolis.
So last night I had looked 16, but at the Acropolis entrance I couldn't even pass as a college student. Crazy Greeks....
It's a hot day, thank goodness it's only like 8 in the morning.
But seriously the view was amazing. As we climbed to the top we saw the Theater of Dionysus and Odeon of Herodes Atticus and once at the top we had a lovely breeze and view of the entire city and all the way to the water. We even saw where we had been the eveing before. (I mean the hill, not the bar ;) We saw the Parthenon and even got a pair of American girls to take our picture in front of it! Then aw we are walking around marveling at the sites I see a perfect little stone lying on the ground. So I pick it up and roll it around in my hand. Then with this intense look on his face and furrowed brow (I just wanted to say furrowed brow) a man, walkie-talkie in hand and important looking name badge clipped onto his polo, comes up to me and simply says "Ma'am! (I'm a ma'am today?) You can not take the stones". Oh, and then I realize that I still have the stone in my hand, I release my hand and just let it fall to the ground. "Sorry!!" :/ And with that the guys just turns around and walks away. (Don't worry Johnny :] )
After spending a sufficient amount of time there we walked through the Ancient Agora and museum on our way out. the Ancient Agora was used as the cities market place and Administration center from the 6th century BC all the way through the 6th century AD! It's a beautiful and relaxing area and you can't even hear the bustle of the city. In the small one room (air conditioned) museum there were many artifacts found and preserved from the Agora. When we left there we wanted to find our way to the Roman Agora but were super hungry so found a cute little restaurant to eat lunch at. In all our time in Italy, we both agree this was the BEST bread we've had! And free water too, yeah we liked this place. And stayed in the cool air conditioning a little while before heading back out. (Seriously it was SO hot, you have no idea!) We didn't get very far on our walk to the Roman Agora before I stopped us to go into a little jewelry shop. Where the jewelry maker himself came out and talked to us about politics the second he heard we were Americans. Oh and he talked to me about a Robert Frost poem (that I had read Junior year, thanks IB...). He was a nice old man though (plus I liked his work) so I humored him and we chatted about literature and poetry for a while. I did end up buying a couple bracelets and something for Kirssy (shhhh don't tell her!). Then we continued our journey and found the Popular Musical Instruments Museum, hosted by the Ministry of Culture (a little too 1984 for me...) was near where we were. So we detoured a little to visit the museum.
The museum is quite cute. With a courtyard out front and someone playing harp, and two clarinet players practicing on the second floor. It had instruments from the 18th-20th century and headsets that reproduced the music of each display. Really neat. I really liked it! Oh! And we saw two violins, but no violas. Nora and I were disappointed. (She played Viola in high school too!). Now it's time to head into the Roman Agora, built between the 19th and 11th century from donations of Julius and Octavion Ceasar. It was pretty cool. But really just a whole bunch of old rocks. Haha Just kidding. I have a million pictures. But right now my brain can't think of everything in there.
Now a fool would believe our site seeing might end there but NO! Much more to see. Off to the Panathenaic Stadium where the first modern Olympic games were held in 1896 and again in 2004! Awesome. And then off to see Zeus' Temple and Madrians Arch. Which is the remnants of the largest temple ever built in Greece. And even as tired as we were we wanted to finish our long day of sight seeing by getting the "best" view of the Parthenon on Philopappos Hill. Just a little southwest of the Acropolis it really was the best view, and even as hot as it was there was a nice breeze and many stone benches to chill out and enjoy the view. Again Nora and I bugged some other tourists to take our picture. :] Then we headed back down and to our hotel for a lovely shower! We were only out site seeing for nine hours. Weak! Haha.
Because we were so worn out from our day we just wanted to find a cute little place to sit and eat dinner, but for some reason nothing seemed to be open. Were we crazy? It was a Saturday night...right? But we did finally find a place where we could get some good Greek food! on our way back to our room later we walked by this little bakery...and that was bad. We wanted to try everything. But we settled for sampling a few things. Haha. And of course one of our "samples" was Baklava (nut and honey pastry) which was SO good. After a day like that we for sure went to sleep early and it was wonderful!
What a good day, we felt so accomplished!
And didn't even get lost once. :]