Day of surpises!

First off let me tell you that after being in bed for a bit we felt an
earthquake. Nothing to be alarmed about just for a split second and
gone. I guess you can say surprise #1.

We headed out of the city of Thesaloniki and on our way to I don't
know except on to Berea or Virgena. On our way we stopped for
surprise #2 this will only interest you if you are history buff. We
stopped at the birthplace of Alexander the Great. Very cool start
except it is hot. We beautiful mosaic floors and huge plots where
homes were and these were big 'cause of the city where royalty lived.
The town was called Perma.
We stopped at the site where Paul preached in the city if Berea again
beautiful mosaics.

Surprise #3 took place after lunch and worth the wait. The site we
saw was not on our itenerary at. So we made our way into the gates,
let me set this up this way. After we left this morning our guide
pointed of the huge mounds which were tombs. These specific tombs
were in regards to the land owners this was an honor. First off this
site was great 'cause we went into one of these mounds again
clueless. Okay enough suspense. We went to the tomb of Emperor...

Phillip II and his wife and son. Do you know who Phillip was? He was
Alexander the great's father. This tomb was found ingredt condition
now we didn't walk in the tomb but this museum had much of the
remnants that were in the tombs. Keep in mind this was royalty. We
saw huge gold boxes gold crowns. Unfortunately we could not take
pictures they were all over us on that one. But the artifacts we saw
were great.

Surprise #4 comes later.

Let me tell you a bit about what we do while we drove some of you
might think we just sit back and sleep, we don't. During all of our
long portions of the treks we have lectures and I am learning alot
from the wisdom of Mark Moore and Mark Scott. The words that thy
share I am like everyone else eating it up. And of course our guide
talks too. Then we sleep some. Today was difficult to sleep only
because we climbed high in the mountains switching back and forth.
This was the first time I ever felt car sick. I got over that
quickly, but aparently I wasn't the only one.

Surprise #4 came after we came down the mountain. We hit the town of
Meteroa again an unplanned visit. We stopped at a place where the
monks and the nuns live even to this day. We stopped at the nunnery
of St. Barbera. This was a place where where the mountains shot up
from the ground to the sky and the monks originally built monastariea
on top of these mountain fingers. Wow wow wow. The view was
awesome. We stopped at an active nunnery to look at the chapel.
Picture above.

After we left there we went to an Icon factory a place where they
reproduce icons from inside the Greek Orthodox Church. It was okay my
thought a tourist trap.

We are now at our hotel and making our way to...stay tuned to tomorrow.

I was disappointed last night that we didn't have access to a server
but tonight we do. So catch up on two days worth.

Becca I love you an pray that you interview and day tomorrow goes
good. I miss you all and can't wait to kiss your faces.

Tune in tomorrow...LA