Greece!!!

So I've been busing my way through Greece the last couple days. We left Italy last Saturday and headed to Athens. I have to say, when it comes to comparing Greece to Italy, it is nearly impossible to say which one I like better. They both have amazing food, culture, and sites, it makes it super difficult to choose which one is cooler. However, we have been roadtripping through the countryside of Greece and I have to say, it reminds me of Colorado, but it blows CO out of the water. I mean does Colorado have random castles on top of mountain peaks and ancient Greek temples in the middle of nowhere in the mountains? I think the answer to that is no... It doesn't. But there have been a few times when we have been away from the sea when I will look out the window and feel like I'm back home and I have to remind myself that we are actually in Greece. Alright, so far we have been to Athens, Nafplion, Sparta, Olympia, Mycenea, and all over Arcadia (also known as bear county in ancient Greece). Of course we saw the Parthenon while in Athens, but I have to say, it was not my favorite temple on the acropolis. Instead I thought the Erecthion was way cooler! It's this smaller temple off to the right of the Parthenon which is kinda overshadowed by the hype of the Parthenon. It's way cool because it has columns that are shaped to look like women, so if you have seen hercules, you can think of the muses, and that's essentially what they have at the erecthion. Also in Athens is this temple dedicated to the god Hephaestus (god of the forge, or in today's terms, god of the handyman). It was so cool, probably my favorite Greek temple (I've seen a lot since being here). But yeah, it's really well preserved and you can imaging that it still looks like it did way back when. Also in Athens we saw some extreme right wing nationalist protesting though the streets, it was a bit exciting really. So we left Athens and started our five day roadtrip through Greece on Tuesday, so we are currently on day three. I have nothing to complain about, except imagine riding a bus through the back roads of the rocky mountains an that will give you an idea of what I've been doing. It's really pretty though so I have coped with the motion sickness that keeps creeping up. In Nafplion we went up to the local castle on top of a mountain and explored it!! We had free reign to do whatever we wanted an go wherever we wanted up there, as long as we had the energy to climb up something we could if we wanted to. It was sweet, the castle was accessible by a staircase that had 910 stairs in it (we got a ride up and walked down) but it was sweet!!! We also went to sparta where there is this medieval village built into the side of one of the surrounding mountains and we walked all around there as well... And of course I had to say "This is Sparta" all epicly, seeing as I was actually in Sparta it seemed to fitting ( didn't see a giant hole in the ground though... Just saying). But yeah, that was yesterday, this morning we hung out at Olympia for a few hours and explored where the original Olympics were held. Our group had a pretty intense foot race on the track... We now have an Olympic champion in our midst.
Anyways, I feel like that is enough of an update so I'll just put up some of the pictures I just so happened to take on my phone, unfortunately for you I've been using my camera a lot more lately so I don't have too much that I can post right now, but I'll get to it when I am home!!! Enjoy