GREECE

Greece: lots of important rocks!

this post is going to take me forever to write.
and look y'all, I took a LOT of photos so I'm not even going to try to sort through them or even delete the blurry ones etc, here's a google photo album (CONTENT WARNING: there are some photos of naked statues, mostly male. If that's a problem for you, click through with caution but they are mostly further down in the album)

I ATE A LOT OF BREAD

this was the least nice hotel room we stayed in, just to give you an idea ok

important souvenier

I know there are specific things I ought to talk about but like ...there's a LOT of stuff we did in Greece and it's sort of overwhelming to think about summing it up tbhhhhh.

I will be posting sometime tonight or tomorrow what I have done over the last two weeks as well, sorry this post sucks!! I will try to add some stuff below as I have time/energy

Thessaloniki

Our first stop was in the north in the 2nd largest city in Greece. One notable event from our time there was a boat trip on what we dubbed "the booze cruise" I think basically all of us did it. The idea is the ride is free but you have to buy a drink (presumably alcoholic). I think they hated us by the time I got there in like the fourth giant group of mormons who only ordered waters and juices haha.

Philippi and Lydia
one of our first stops was a Greek Orthodox church commemorating the baptism of Lydia, the first named convert in Europe. She was such a rad lady!!!

Also Philippi is a cool city with some ruins and I sang at the theatre there that has some rad acoustics. Great job greeks

Meteora

YO MONKS LIVE A CRAZY LIFE IN SOME PARTS OF GREECE OK. like the ones who live atop a sliver of a mountain