Scott's Europe Trip :): Athens and now London.. and then Paris tomorrow!!!!

Big Ben (Old Ben, as Grandpa says hah) and Parliament

Three generations on the Metro

Buckinham Palace!

Big Ben and the London Eye

Temple of Posiedon in Sounion

The famous/amazing restaurant with the best Moussaka in the Plaka

The Acropolis from the hill right next to it, great dark sky with the sun right on it.

Posiedon/Zues sculpture in the Athens Archealogical Museum

Athens was a perfect way to end Euroterm and get me ready for my mini Euroterm with my Mom and Grandpa.

In Athens, Eugene and I went to the Parthenon, the new/amazing Acropolis Museum, the Athens Archaelogical Museum, went out to Sounion to see the Temple of Poseidon on a hour long bus ride along the coast, and we ate at the same amazing restaurant three nights in a row!! The Acropolis was everything I was expecting and more, the first two days before we had gone up, it had been raining on and off, and when we decided to go up the hill (which was right next to our hotel) it turned out to be a perfect day. There were cloudy skies in the background but the sun decided to light up the Parthenon, Propylea and Erecthion just right. I have some pretty cool pictures. We also hiked up a hill next to the Acropolis that is basically at the same level and got great shots looking at it. There was also a rainbow going over the white city of Athens all day, it was a perfect day. Every night we ate dinner at this amazing place called Vaizantino's, where we got to get to know the waiters and try some of the best food in Greece. We had moussaka, souvlaki, spinakopita (probably wrong spelling), baklava, and the best greek salad. I will never forget the food they made there. Our trip to Sounion was great, we got a bus ride right to the Temple of Posiedon, and I can see why the ancient Greek's thought it was where the god of the sea lived because it was a amazing view of the Mediterrean, almost a full 360 panorama of it. We sat at the cafe on the hill looking at the Temple as the sun was descending drinking fresh orange juice and coke, it was a really good trip. We stayed in the Plaka area of Athens which is mostly restaurants and gift shops, but I think my favorite part. Every night Eugene and I got back to the hotel and there was a scary/funny movie on t.v. it was pretty funny, and entertaining. The week was great and then I headed off for London to meet my MOM in GRANDPA, that I haven't seen in sooo long.

I got on the plane for London, flew over Croatia and Switzerland and Paris, landed in Gatwick, took a hour bus ride to Heathrow, and finally met them! We got lost finding the hotel thanks to me, but we did make it, and when we got there, they upgraded us to this Huge room on the top floor with a kitchen, two beds, a bathroom and a living room with a t.v. and couch and table, all because Mom was nice to the front desk guy, so we had good luck from the start. We realized we only had one day in London really, so we planned it out, and packed it all in. We started by walking through Hyde Park (where it started pouring rain) but it was still nice, then we went to Buckingham Palace and saw the gaurds, we walked under the Wellington Arch, went to a cool church service at Westminister Abbey where we sat right next to the choir, and we went to the National Gallery and saw a ton of amazing art. We ate at a nice London pub and then came back to the hotel, because we were all exhausted. It is a great start to our trip and tomorrow morning we are going to see Harry Potter's thing in Kings Cross station and then we will head off to Paris at 11 in the morning!!!! It is really great that I get to be here with my Mom and Grandpa, both who really haven't experienced it yet, I can tell they are loving it already.

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