Monday, August 20, 2007

Athens, greek is hard


This is a building with Greek writing on it, I thought it was cool looking. Also there is a bank in the foreground with English writing on it. I think English is easier to understand, LATIN ROOTS ROCK!!


They aren't big fans of McDonald's in Greece, they also aren't big fans of complete sentences, but who is these days? This was right in front of a McDonald's, everything was in Greek and Greek is crazy hard to understand.



Transportation there is about the opposite of it in the US. Apparently smaller is better, and they love two wheel vehicles. Kyle is demonstrating that he is far bigger than a smart car but man I bet those things are easy to parallel park. I guess they are coming to the US but of course they will be 18 inches longer on the back end, giggidy giggidy.



These are 2 of the 3 olympic stadiums I saw on the trip. The Greeks are so proud of them. Top one is the old one when they started the olympics up again in the 1800s, and the bottom one is the one they used a couple years ago. We kinda just wandered in there, it made me think about the US, no way could we just wonder into Dodger stadium or something the day of a giant event, even if we did take cool silhouette pictures.



This is the temple of Zeus, it was one of the 7 wonders of the world. The columns are big and all, but man they had low standards back then, I mean theres not even a roof.



I don't really know what this was, I saw it from Mars hill and thought it looked cool, I don't know about you but this is what I think of when I think Greece, that and Gyros.





This is Mars Hill, it is named after Rob Bell's church I think. Thats the acropolis in the background. There was a tree there I liked, also Kyle was inspired by Mr. Bell and he gave a 3 part sermon about Elvis or something. The hill is all marble and tread on by many people so its slippery as a mofo, you really have to concentrate to not take a tumble off the side as there is a big drop with jagged rocks and all that good stuff. Oh a guy named Paul spoke there too.




This is a real Greek man eating at a stylish cafe. I'm not trying to be artistic here, the Greeks are so stylish that if you take a picture of them, no matter what the settings are, it turns out black and white. Go figure.









Various pictures of the Acropolis, which means, I think, someone who can do flips from Poland, it was once a prominent place for polish circus performers, some of there original climbing scaffoldings are still there as you can see in some pictures. Also Kyle is peeing on it, he has the bladder the size of an infant, or a geriatric, either way that kid pees a lot.



This is kyle philosophizing in front of where they put Socrates in jail, I think kyle wins it was really deep you should have seen it.


2 comments:

Bethany said...

Oh, the infamous Kyle-Peeing pictures! Gotta love them!!!

Jeff and Yvonne Weinstein said...

Loved the take on Mars hill as well as mega churches