carolina won!

we beat Clemson!!!!

as a non student when i was in school (smart, very smart in my mind, but didn't try hard enough) i was always fascinated by the following and if a teacher had done this for me, who knows, maybe i would have been on nasa's payroll!

nothing else needed

happy 2 days after thanksgiving. we had good dinner, good family time, poor chef Julie is now sick as a dog and unemployed like many others. She hits the road hard for a job right after she can breath and talk.

ok, here's the best thing going right now!!
since I can never cut and paste on bloger. look up docstoc.com and go to palin debate flowchart!

Then will someone teach me how to cut and paste into blogger!!

DWTS

That stiff model is off!!! Good, two much lip action going also!! Kelly, Donny, Mya - wahoo!! Mya will win as she should!! but huge admiration for Donny and Kelly, who would have thought they would have lasted? Good for them!!
Off to Bible Study - last until after the holidays and then Bingo at Alzheimer unit!! Fun

Sunday part 2

Forgot to tell you about half time show - tribute to the Veterans. As always we had all branches of service represented, but this year they had a veteran from each war, starting with WW2, the youngest veterans all had missing limbs - tore your heart ou. The football players wore black uniforms in honor of the fallen warriors and wore camouflage tennis shoes!! We had 3 Marine jets from Paris Island fly over, and I mean right over the stadium. Usually we have jets from McIntire National Guard field or Shaw Air Force base, but these were green, Ken said they were the Marines. I had tears in my eyes the whole time. speaking of which have you all seen this:

don't know how to copy and paste u-tube. Go to u-tube and look up dog welcoming soldier home. It's great!!

thank you Veterans!!!

Busy

We have our new kitchen table,no chairs or barstools, one step at a time, really!! I am sewing something, but it's a secret!! We went to the Carolina football came last night, they almost beat Florida, number one team in nation!!! But alas, that dreaded 4th quarter, we should only have to play 3 quarters!! Ken says that's hockey - hey how's our hockey team?? The fans were great until the 4th quarter, see they only like to stay for 3 quarters, hockey it is!! Florida had a ton of fans, they travel well!! My voice is gone and I have calluses where my hands hit my rings,they actually are very sore this morning!! Carolina you did well, just hold onto your momentum for the 4th quarter too!! Go Cocks!!!

Part 6

Last day of touring then it's trapped in a plane for days (or so it seems)

Docking at Kusiwasi, Turkey

Ephesus - my favorite by far!! It's the third largest city of unburied ruins in the world! Turkey is clean, proud of the history and very open to tourism. Lots of Russians come now and use the resorts along the Aegean Sea! We had a great guide here, full time Archaeologist, part time tour guide, you could tell he was proud and we learned lots here!

The Library, two story marble beautiful!! Pics don't do it justice!!

a building on the main street up the hill from the library. Check out the carvings!! Amazing!!

The main street looking up hill!!

All in all a great trip! Highly recommend it, like our group of people better in Israel, and liked Israel a little better. Greece needs to work on the culture - when it's old, take it to a recycle area, don't let it rust in the yard, street, field!! Trash belongs in trash cans not on the streets or in the fields. Take pride, you have a beautiful country!! Not to mention the graffiti everywhere, outlaw spray paint!!

Still another trip of a lifetime!! Lucky me, thanks Ken!!

Part 5

More of a city street in the old section of Rhodes

This pic is the real coloration of the water!!

Sunrise coming into Patmos Port!

Daybreak, the little ferries carried us into the port, we had a lesson here (Revelations - but that was it, we didn't do anything else on the island) kind of a bummer!

Part 4

Last leg of trip, on the cruise ship. Before we did 2 nights in Thessaloniki (northern part of country) and 3 nights in Athens

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Aegean Sea - the prettiest blue ocean I've ever seen. World Wide, really, it is dark royal blue!!

Some of the walled city of Rhodes - one of my favorite places!!!

More of wall, Wikipedia The Knights of Rhodes - this is where they started!

Our bartender in Athens. This was a very upscale bar, but we showed up worn out and dusty each night to be greeted by Nikos and he was so much fun. He gave us sushi, snacks and even insisted on surprising us one night with his drink for us, a French Cosmo, delicious!!! We never saw any Precept people drinking, so it was just us (1 per night - we aren't heathens!!)

For all you Californians, street artist in Rhodes knows who "Arnold" is!!

Try it again, more pics of Greece

Corinth Canal, fascinating! Wikipedia it, is really interesting to you Engineer Geeks, and even normal people like me!

Apollo's Temple, Corinth - during the times of Paul's Journey's he came here, this was a really bad town, very liberal, non god fearing, lots of sexually transmitted diseases, which caused lots of really deformed people, 3 boobs, 3 man parts, really!! It was in the museum

An example of parking, this is actually a street that has now been blocked, 4 cars apart!!

The Port of Athens, some of the cruise ships, we are boarding ours and heading to Mykinos, Rhodes, Patmos and Ephesus in Turkey!

part 3

no more, blogger is in an awful mood, keeps jamming up. more later. The cat laying on the keyboard probably isn't helping!!

Greece Part 2

an old Jewish ghetto that was emptied by Nazi's in WWII, most of the buildings are still empty because the area neighbors decided to hold the houses in case family comes home from the war. A few are now occupied by distant cousins and other distant younger generations, but not many. The building behind the black car with the steps was the synagogue (sp ?) As a side note, the man in green (a Precept employee) was with 82 airborne and parachuted into the countryside right here for NATO!!

The Acropolis !! Acropolis means "city of hill" in Greek, so lots of towns had them, this is the most famous - the one in Athens. The building on the left lower side is the amphitheater, the building at the top is the Parthenon and across from that (not visible here is Apollo's Temple)

Apollos Temple, note the columns on the right corner are all women, not just normal columns!! Really moving and cool!

Athens from above at Acropolis, very beautiful from afar, up close - dirty, trashy, graffiti and lots of stray dogs and cats!!

Rough days behind me!

Some pics of Greece - trip order:

Thessoliniki at night from the top floor of our hotel (fl 9) we arrived here after a 16 hour plane ride and a 5 hour train ride. Really tired by now!!

Old wall around Thessolniki (Roman times)

Old Bynzantine Church in Thessoloniki 400ish BC

Alter inside - gold frescos!!

I'm going to do this in sections - blogger is being very grumpy - must be the time change!!