Kusadasi and Patmos

We visited the amazing ancient ruins of Ephasus near Kusadasi Turkey. It is an incredibly well preserved ancient city. 

Incredibly, we were able to sing a couple of songs in the ancient amphitheater there. What an experience!

Ancient public toilets--not much privacy 

We stopped at a Turkish rug shop to learn how silk is taken from the silk cocoons and turned into threads for beautiful silk rugs. 

Silk and wool beautiful Turkish rugs. 

In the afternoon we sailed on to the island of Patmos where we visited the cave where St. John is said to have wrote the Book of Revelations. We also visited Monastary of St. John as well. 

Tender boats back to our ship. 

Our cruise

Buffet time on the ship. Kids have enjoyed the food. 

The kids are taking advantage of the classes on the ship. They took an origami class on the first day. 

Zumba

Shuffle board for everyone. 

Mykonos is a very beautiful island. Kids loved the view and the shopping. 

Josh made a new friend. 

Dinner in the dining room. 

Cruise

We are having a great time on the cruise. We have stopped in Turkey for the morning. Everybody is having a great time. We will blog more later. 

On our way to the cruise

Just thought I would post a few pictures from the last week here in Greece. We are on our way to the cruise. Wi-fi may be difficult to find, so don't be worried if we don't update the blog for a few days. 

Visiting the New Acropolis Museum and other Adventures

Learning about how the Metro works on our way to the flea market.

We did it!!

And amazingly everyone got off at the right station.

We got to visit the local Flea Market to bargain for souvenirs and gifts.

We visited the New Acropolis Museum today which was very interesting.  It contains many of the sculptures and statues that were excavated from many of the Ancient Greek archeological sights.

This is an ongoing excavation project going on under the museum which is uncovering an ancient neighborhood on this site. Visitors will be able to stroll through this neighborhood in the future when they visit the museum.

These are the original caryatids from the temple of Athena at the Acropolis.  These are the only sculptures we were allowed to photograph in the museum.

Since we spent almost the entire day walking today, many of the students were pretty wiped out by the end of our museum tour.

After dinner and a little catnap, we performed in a concert at a Greek cultural center.  We enjoyed listening to traditional Greek music from a wonderful choir.