Day 7-Delphi

I would like the world to know that Delphi is beautiful. It is a little country town, that has stunning views, great resturants, pretty good shopping, lots of cats (whole families of strays), and friendly people, but

enough of that and on to our day.

Ellie and I awoke around 8:30ish, got dressed, and then went down to breakfast. I have never been a greek yogurt fan...but I ate some for breakfast with honey and it was delicious! Our lovely NGSE leaders, Carolyn and David, then allowed us to get in small groups and explore/photograph the village on our own. I went with Holly and Rachel. Together the three of us literally walked the whole village up and down (since it is situated on the side of a mountain). Highlight: finding stray baby kittens, SO CUTE. Next all of us hit the shopping stores, and we all got some cute jewlery and bags among other things.

Precious baby kitties.

The whole group then met back up at the hotel to go over our pictures from the last couple of days, and start sorting them into files that help to organize the photos by compostion. Compostion is the rules of photography such as rule of thirds, leading lines, framing, etc. Do not worry too much if you have no idea what I am talking about, though I recommend you look them up because they really do help.

Again, we were allowed to independently split up into groups and go to lunch. My group consisted of Claire, Stephanie, Holly, Madeline, and Rachel. We all ate at a restuarant that I cannot pronounce the name of, much less read since it was writted in greek letters. We then wandered around town looking for ice cream, and the best we could find was a little stand that had ice cream cones and fudge bars in a freezer. Regardless of the quality, we got some anyway. While eating our ice cream, we explored the town and shopped somemore until around 3pm, which was the time we needed to head back to the hotel.

After all the independent lunch groups regrouped at the hotel, we all walked the short distance to the Delphi museum and the ruins of ancient Delphi. We had a great tour guide, and she explained a lot about Delphi's aka the "navel of the world"'s history. After the tour, we walked the ruins and took more pictures.

Athenian treasury within the ancient city of Delphi

The group then walked back to the modern town of Delphi, and stopped at another resturant, which I cannot pronounce, for dinner. We all ate lots of delicious food. I went out on a limb, and got the Dolmades which are grape leaves that are stuffed with rice and other objects of food. They weren't bad, but I definatley did not find them to be that great. After dinner, we again were set loose to wreck havoc on the town of Delphi by ourselves. Most of us just returned to the hotel to relax though.

While people were exploring, Carolyn and David set up a projector on the terrace or the roof of the hotel. We all gathered on the outdoor chairs that were situated there, and looked at all the pictures we took from the scavenger hunt on our first day in Florence. Along with that, they also brought out 2 cakes for us to celebrate Abby's 16th birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABBY! I forgot to mention that we dressed in bedsheets as togas in order to celebrate with a toga party. Opa! Us girls all snuggles under oour togas and watched Momma Mia off the projector.

I am sad to say that tomorrow we are leaving this beautiful village, and moving ourselves to Athens. Cannot wait for the new adventure to begin!