Corinth, Cruise Ship

We ate a delicious breakfast in Athens before we left the hotel. We packed our luggage and got them all labeled to board the cruise ship later in the day. Meanwhile, it would be a busy sight-seeing day for us before we met up with the ship.

The bus took us to the Acropolis Museum which is an archaeological museum built on top of an archaeological site.

We were traveling in two different groups--the red and the yellow Fun For Less bus groups. There is Frank with the red flag we were trained to follow for two entire weeks. Everyone had been instructed to meet by the owl (sitting atop its metal perch behind Patricia).

We made a stop at the Panathenaic Stadium which hosted the first modern Olympic games in 1896. It was reconstructed over the ruins of where the original stadium was in ancient times.

We made another stop at a quaint little shopping/eating area and enjoyed walking around there for a while until...

...we had walked all the way to the top of the street so we could get a good view of the Acropolis.

Then we turned around and walked back down the same street...all the way down to where the bus had dropped us off and we couldn't spot our landmarks anywhere. We came out on a super busy road that wasn't anywhere near the church where we had been dropped off.

How could that be??? We had stayed on the same path. We had walked straight up and we had walked straight back down. How could we have been so far off the mark?

Glen insisted we walk straight back up to where we had stopped to take pictures with the Acropolis in the background and it was there we discovered our mistake.

There was a fork in the road. We had walked up the walkway on the left and had been so interested in getting a better view of the Acropolis that when we turned around to go back down, we took the pathway to the right and that totally explained how we had gotten so far off at the end. They were both straight paths leading to the same destination going up, but to completely different destinations going down.

The second trip down we knew we were on the right path because we found the frozen dessert store we had seen on our way up and had said we would stop there on our way back down. Ahhhhh! It tasted so refreshing with all the fresh fruit I had added to mine. Mmmmm good!!

Thankfully we were not late for the bus, but another couple had gotten lost and they were wandering around and missed the bus. They had to get themselves to our next destination by themselves. Poor people. We totally understood how it could happen!!!!

Our next stop--an archaeological site of Ancient Corinth.

We gathered around under some shade trees and listened to Michael Wilcox give one of his numerous lectures that he gave at various locations throughout the rest of our vacation. I wish now I had taken notes on what he said, but I didn't.

Fun For Less provided us with booklets about each location, so I'll most likely be including a few quotes from the booklets and also I've been quoting from what I read on the internet.

Paul wrote two of his Epistles to the Christian community at Corinth. One of the Epistles reflects the difficulties of maintaining a Christian community in such a cosmopolitan city. It is also in Corinth where he wrote his Epistle to the Romans.

The Temple of Apollo in Ancient Corinth.

The temple has been dated to around 540 BC. It was built in the Doric style with 6 columns on each end and 15 columns on each side.

The remains lie on a terrace which is on the highest part of the city.

 Steven enjoying a Greek strudel snack on the bus.

The Corinth Canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth making the former peninsula an island. It was completed in 1893.

Look at the delicious treat Fun For Less had put in our cabins to welcome us aboard the Emerald Princess cruise ship. Yummy chocolate-covered strawberries.

Since Glen does not like this kind of treat, that meant all the more for me!

Our first cruise ship dining room experience of the trip.

Every evening after dinner we went to the Princess theater to enjoy the entertainment. Followed by popcorn, ice cream and a late night buffet. I never indulged in the after-dinner food frenzy. My splurge was the strawberries earlier in the day.

Step count for the day was 16,715 which was 8.44 miles.