One week you are on a boat in South Carolina and then the next you are on your way to Greece! That is what happens when you are a mother and you miss your baby girl. Rather than sit around and "supervise" the diesel engine repair guys that were well into their third week of refitting Galt's engine, I decided I would take a quick trip over to see my daughter, Kaarin, in Greece where she is studying for the year. Bill graciously offered to take over the "supervision" of the engine repair (which basically involved staring at either one guy talk to himself throughout the day or two guys arguing about whose idea would work the best....answer, by the way, was usually neither one until their female partner pointed out something obvious which, of course, worked! So, I hopped onto a plane and took a very direct flight which involved Charlotte to Boston (change planes) to Newark (change planes and airlines) to Athens. After a short 17 hours, I arrived in Greece. As I was settling into my hotel in Athens (Pi Athens, I highly recommend!), I heard Kaarin's voice outside my window as she was getting out of class and my heart was happy! We spent the next 4 days reliving our previous trip to Athens but this time, Kaarin was my own private archeologist tour guide. She knew every inch of the city and gave me so many facts that I was pleased to see that all of this college tuition is paying off. Our most humorous portion of the trip was when we saw the sanitation workers going on strike and literally throwing trash out of the garbage truck onto the street. I am not sure they found us filming them for Kaarin's Snapchat quite as humorous! All too soon my visit came to an end and my return flight was even more direct....Athens to Newark, "sleep" in Newark airport until check in time at 4 am, then to Boston and then to Charlotte. Only 24 hours to get home! Bill had done such a fine job with his supervision task that the engine repair was complete and we are now on Galt full time! We are spending this weekend finishing up some last minute projects and hope to depart from our port in Pawley's Island early next week. Here's to hoping the next blog post will be from somewhere further south and MUCH warmer!
Educational fact for the week: The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. The word acropolis is from the Greek words ἄκρον (akron, "highest point, extremity") and πόλις (polis, "city").[1] Although the term acropolis is generic and there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as "The Acropolis" without qualification. During ancient times it was known also more properly as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent-man, Cecrops, the supposed first Athenian king. While there is evidence that the hill was inhabited as far back as the fourth millennium BC, it was Pericles (c. 495–429 BC) in the fifth century BC who coordinated the construction of the site's most important present remains including the Parthenon, the Propylaia, the Erechtheion and the Temple of Athena Nike.[2][3] The Parthenon and the other buildings were seriously damaged during the 1687 siege by the Venetians during the Morean War when gunpowder being stored in the Parthenon was hit by a cannonball and exploded.[4]
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