This morning our first excurstion off the ship was Creet. Our first stop was to go by the palace of the miceneon people there. We ended up being the first group of people to arive this morning and so we moved throu the site with out haveing to wate in any lines. This was very nice. It was realy neet to see all the restored colums and the butiful colors on all the frescos around. One of the main things that cought my eye was there watter system. With my background in arcetecture it was cool to see how this was done in earler sivilsations. Another thing that I found interesting at this site was the use of horzontal wooden beams integrated in with the macenory work and the multiple levels of staced squair blocks. It remined me of some of the carteristics that you might see in some of Frank Loyed Wright’s arcetecture.

After we arived on the far side of the site our guide had several of us reinacted some of the epic stories. I vidiotaped on my camera the acting as our guide toled the story. We then saw the oldest road in Urop that came into the city.

Once we had copleated touring the site we headed back to the bus and traveled back into town. Here we went to the museum and saw manin items like the duble headed acts, statues, several pots, and other items from the miceneeon civilsation. Once our tour was over I did some video taping and photography of the modle of the sight that we asw earler in the day. Then it was off to get some watter and ice creem befor heading back to the ship.

Once we departed for the ship our bus was blocked in by other busses that were all going back to the ship also. Apon arival to the customs there was an extermily long lign that took about 1/2 an hower to get throu. Then we all huried out to our ship for deparcher from Creet.

We all then had a meeting about or deparcher tomaor from the curse and arival in santereenie to night. After the meeting I headed to lunch at the rear of the ship. Here I got some food and headed out to the upper deck to eat out side with Bennet out on the deck. Once we had finished our lunch we went down to the dinning hall down stairs and got some ice creem. During the time that we were down there the caption came and sat the activities director at our table. I had a wonderful discution with here for about thurty minouts. She is originaly from canida. Here husband is the one who had got here started in here job. He also works on ships, and they are not on same one curently but many times they are. We tocked about here travles and I also explaned about our school and the program and our travles. Once she had compleated eating and I had finished ice creem I went back to my room and took a nap till it was time to arive at our next destinatin.

Once the ship got close to Miconos aroung 3:30 I got readey and headed up on top deck to see us arive to the island. This is the island that had a voclano go off and over half of the island sunck into the sea. It was realy neet to see the clifs with all the strata layers of earth as we arived. This is one of the places that it is bleved that could have bean the lost city of alantous.

Apon arival we took tenders off the ship to the island. The one I was on a sailing ship like old ship sailed by. A few seconds later a large wave came up and splahed into the ship getting severl people wet that are in our group. They were sitting in the open space where you get on and off the ship. Once we arived I headed up to where the donkies are. Here we road donkies up to the top of the island. It took a while to get everthing orginised for us to start making our way up the hill. There was some nigoeationg between Deno and the people that had the donies. I ended up folowing our guid up one of the tiers and hoped on one of the donkies. Then I road it for a little while and then the man started sayinging things in greek. I figured out that he wanted me to get off. After getting off he had me get on another donkie and we continued up the side of the mounton. The seemed to have a minde of its own. Several times it would put its head down to the ground. It liked to go back in forth from beside the wall to the side of the hill as we went up the differnt swich backs. Once we arived at the top I took some photoes of the butiful town and the view over the sea.

I then went browsing throu stores and got some thing to dirink. I then ended up going with a group up to a restrant that had a view of the hole island. It was very butiful. Here I had an banana milck shake. It was farly expensive but was very good and the view was wonderful. I then went and did some more window shoping befor ceaching the cable car down to ceach a tinder to the ship.

This evening I had supper down stairs in the dinning room. I ate with a group of older ladies that were on a tour with there luthern church. We had a wonderful conversation about many things including Pauls travles and different experinces and had some discution about the gosple towdes the end. Folowing our time I went up sairs and saw the end of the sun set up on the main deck. I then went to the back of the ship where several people were playing cards for a while. After this I went back up stairs to the front of the ship and looked at the stars some more and did some singing with the wind rolign off the medetranioun blowing in my face. It was butiful and very reffreshing. After the time up on deck I headed back down to my caben and packed up for our deparcher in the mornign. We set our bags out side the room and they came and picked up in the middle of the night.

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