Mykonos

This is actually Day 3 of the trip. My pictures from Day 2 were being weird. So we borded the cruise ship!! Ummm the first day on the ship we were all so excited and were running around top deck bottom deck all over. I will do another post just on the ship though. This post is about the first island we went to, Mykonos. It was SO PRETTY!  This island had all white houses, but it's not the famous island that you might be thinking of, (Santorini). This island was just calm and cute and cute and cute. Our tour guide basically just took us up to a point and then gave us free time.

 

One cool thing, is our tour guide Gloria had told us earlier that if we see the pelicans on this island, they would bring us luck the rest of the trip. Becaues all the pelicans left along time ago or something and these two stayed. It's not normal for Pelicans to be in Greece or the whole Mediterranean I think.

 

They had little ice cream shops everywhere! And a little crepe shop, we did get crepes. Anyway enjoy the pics!

Parthenon

(I've litterally been trying FOREVER to do posts on Greece, and my computer uploads most of the pictures, and then the last two it never uploads, and it won't even let me put up the ones that DID upload. So it will have to be short posts like this for now on!)

 

 



Our first day in Athens we went on a bus to the Parthenon. A temple dedicated to the goddess Athena. I'm not your biggest history person, and I thought it was a lot cooler than I thought I would. Becuase you see so many pictures of this and I was looking right at it! It's amazing because I would have NEVER thought I would see that in my whole life. I remember when I saw it that's when I really started thinking I should travel more. It's crazy how many amazing places and things there are that most people never see. It really made me want to travel! 

 

The view from the parthenon.

 

Olympic Stadium

The group, (well the girls) at our hotel

Seeing the Parthenon on the way up! Was quite a walk of stairs to get there.

Little streets! Everything so close together.

Greece Adventures Part 1

Airport, Airport, Airport, and Greece


YAY!!! I don't know where to start. It was a dream -I can't believe I really went to Greece with my friends and my favorite teachers. It was the greatest experience of my life for sure. I signed up over a year ago and have been counting down the days FOREVER!

So I will just start at the beginning!! I might just post 1 day of Greece at a time.


We flew to LA Thursday morning. Then we got on our 10 hour flight to Amsterdam which I was really nervous about because I hate flying. It wasn't too bad though I slept for a good part of it. Once we were in the Amsterdam airport is when it really hit me that I was in a completely differnt country. Even though you couldn't see much from the air port It was just like WHOA! Not in Kansas anymore! Anyway so then we took a 3 hour flight to Greece! I was always sitting by at least one friend on the plane and we were so pumped.

Ms. Riches, me, Samye

At the Athens airport we met our group tour director, Gloria. She honestly is one of my favorite people I've ever met. I love her so much!!! I will talk about her later.

 So we just went to our hotel and had dinner at the hotel (which I'll just say the food wasn't my favorite, but I'm a picky eater so..whatever. ) Our teacher assigned us our roomates, and there were 4 to a room. The rooms were smaller than even like a Motel here, and the beds were all single beds lined up literally touching each other and that pretty much was the whole room. But I thought it was fun cause it was like a slumber party. 6 of my really good friends came on the trip, and everyone else who came I still knew them and everything so no matter who I roomed with I was always with most of my friends anyway. It was a PARTAY!

We had a balcony in our room and I remember we went out there and just looked at everything around our hotel and tried to take in that we were in Greece!

Front of our hotel

View from Balcony

See how you can see 4 beds all lined up in a pretty row.

 

 

 

Around our hotel there are so many stores. Like very nice high end fashion stores so it was really fun to window shop around. We also walked down to the end of the street and went out on a dock which was really fun.

I'm in a rush but when I have more time I'll continue posting all the pretty pictures!

The Love Of My Life

Is Churchball.
I LOVE it. I love it I love it I love it. As most of you know my young women's is small, but we have always combined with the ward that shares my building and I love it.  We were undefeated I'm the season until the last game we lost. Went on to region. Have played 3 region games and lost 1. it's double elimination so we are still going. My team is just so competitive jut like me.

It is so brutal though!! We played on Saturday, Tuesday, and today Wednesday and I have 9 battle wounds. 4 floor burns, 2 nasty long red scratches, and 3 bruises.

We play again Thuraday tomorrow at 8:00 at 7035 South Nuttree Drive
(the same neighborhood where the Willie  walk used to be.

Nerd Alert from ME

SO. Here is the story. This week is "Pi week" right? Cause of the date 3-14? Ya! So there have been all sorts of pi activities going on this week put on by the math club. Such as a scavenger hunt, recite the pi digits, art contest, pie eating contest, etc. So my math teacher was offering extra credit if you participated in any of the activities, and my grade is sooo awful in that class. Anyway so I decided I had to do something. So I decided to do the art contest by making up a song about pi. They said any kind of art from paintings to sculptures so I am not the best artist when it comes to drawing but I thought it would be funny to make up a song.

So I write a song about pi, and then one day after school when the math club is judging all the entries, they had be come in and play my song so they could judge it the same day. So blah blah blah I go and play it, whatever every thing is fine and I get extra credit.

Now TODAY, I just am in English and a girl says to me "Hey I liked your song!"
And I'm like....um what how did you hear it? Did my teacher show your math class it?!
She replied: No, it's on Kolt News! (Our school student news show.)
Me. WHAT. Are you freaking kidding me.

Is basically how that conversation went down. I was soooo upset. I had no idea anyone would ever see it! Like A: it was a dumb song. B: There is just a lot of things I would have done different if I knew it would be shown to everyone.

ANYWAY, my anger continued and I had math for the last class of the day. And turned out I got 1st place in the art contest! Hahaha I thought it was a little funny since I just wanted extra credit.

So anyway. Here is the link to the video, and my song is at about 6:00 minutes into the video.


http://www.youtube.com/user/KOLTnews?feature=watch

Countdown

I am going to Greece in 18 days! I am so excited. I'm going with the history department at my school as an education tour. We will also have a four day Greek Island Cruise. We will also stop at Turkey! We had our final planning meeting and I am stoked. There is a total of 20 students going, about 6 parents and 2 teachers and they seriously happen to be like my two favortie teachers. The one teacher who is heading the tour was my World Civ teacher last year and was my FAVORITE. She was the reason I wanted to come to school. The other teacher is coming is the student government advisor so I had her last year as a class officer. 6 of my friends are going to so it's pretty awesome!!

Our flight schedule is

Salt Lake-----------LA

LA-----------------Amsterdam

Amsterdam-------------Greece

(on the way home)

Greece-------------Amsterdam (one night stay and tour in Amsterdam)

Amsterdam---------Paris

Paris-------------Salt Lake.


I don't even know what to expect I am so excited!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

                                February 14th, 1997              February 14th, 2005