Today I got up and had breakfast down stairs over looking the mountons at Meteora. After breakfast we left on our trip to drive up to the different monistaries that are perched up on top of the huge outcrops of clifs coming ount into the plain. The vies were wonderful from thes sites and the odd shapes of the towering clifs of compresed rock with smooth walls were joust amasing!

Our first stop was on the way up the road to see our first up close glimpes of the differnt monistariys and convents. Here we learnd about how the younger people of the town clime up the clifs to this one out criop, like a cave where moncks use to live to put up new peaces of colerful cloth. Theny then tack down the old ones and give them to the people as keep sakes or somthing to remimber the past.

Our first stop was at a Convent that use to be a monistary but now has changed. Here we climed up many steps that have most recently ben created to aid in reaching the top of the clif. When we reached the top one of the nunus here was so exited to see that some one our age would have traveld so fare to come see there home. See seat that we reminded here of here grand childern. Here we toured the church or chaple and here information about the different icons and about the greek orthodox church.

The next stop today was the oldest monistary on the clifs that is still open today. At this monistary we were able to see the old rope latter that they would have used to reach the top and also the old wench and net used to bring suplises up to the top of the clif. This monistary was much larger than the other one. The chaple was 3 times as large. It had the strong smell of insence in the air along with being dark like the preous one. We also were able to see the store rooms, the room where they keep the skules of the dead and the old dining room where they would have eaten. After taking the guided tour we had about 20 min to our selves to go exploring on the complex. There were some stuning views that are un excriableible and butiful flower garens with quort yards throu out the complex. Also I was inpressed with the meconisumof pulys and weals and levers put together to alow the rasing and lowering of suplies in the old rope net. They sed that they would also bring people up in thes nets and that they would not be replaced till one brock. So, I gues you would pray that you weren’t the lukey one that it give way on and faul several thousand feet to the canyoun below.

After we had compleated here the group took a bus tour of some of the othere monistaries getting one and taking photoes pereodicly along the way. One of these places was the monistary that was used in one of the James Bond bomies was filmed.

After we had compleated here we went on down to the new town where we sayed last night to have lunch at a restrant there. We were able to see them cooking in a stone harth outside the kitchen on a open fire. After lunch we took about 3 and 1/2 hower drive thrugh the plain and then the mountons back to Athens.

When we got back we had supper at the Artumus and we selibrated David’s or (red)’s birthday. His mother had sent stremers, bolunes and maskes that we all wore. Folowing dinner I went up stairs and studied for our 270 test tomaro and then wet to bed a littler earler so that I would be prepard for tomaroes activities.

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