Temple of Poseidon

Friday, September 26th, Arcadia took anybody that was interested to see the Temple of Poseidon. Located in Sounion, about an hour away from Athens, we hopped on a bus and headed towards the coast. It was a really nice day so we didn’t need to worry about any grey skies dirtying up our pictures! Before we reached the temple, we actually were taken to a technological museum at Lavrio. I’m not going to say much or anything really about it because it was a total boreeee. I took one picture and that was it. Everyone just really wanted to see the Temple and go swimming afterwards!

After walking around the museum for about 30-45 minutes, we got back on the bus and headed over to the Temple of Poseidon! Its location, overlooking the water, is very significant and appropriate since Poseidon is the god of the sea and natural forces like earthquakes and tornadoes. It was constructed in 600 BC with white marble. A funny story that I read in my travel book talks about a legend that King Aegeus of Athens supposedly leapt to his death off the cliff where the temple sits when he spotted his sons ship with a black sail waving in the wind. A black sail represents the sign of death. Aegues’ son was actually alive and quite well as he was on board getting drunk and had forgotten to raise the victorious sail instead of the black one. Drinking kills people, drinking kills……

Stoa Gangstas

Arcadia girls at the Temple of Poseidon!

View of the Mediterranean from the Temple

Once we had seen the Temple of Poseidon, we were off to go swimming! We were dropped off at a beach about 10 minutes away from the Temple. We had a little beach lunch and some napped, looked for seashells or went exploring. I went exploring with the girls and got great pics.

Life is never dull with my Arcadia girls

We hung out on this rock for a little bit and then the girls decided to go swimming. I decided to take some pictures of them so I went back on land. Here are the girls swimming. You see those two little dots in the middle of the picture, yea that's them. :P

After getting back to my towel on the beach, I decided that I wanted to go swimming too. So I got my bathing suit out of my bag and headed towards the bathroom when I felt a pain from my toe everytime I walked. I brushed off the sand on my foot to see if I had cut myself when climbing on the rocks. Oh no, there was no cut.

There was this!

A stupid splinter!!!

I sat for a good 30-45 minutes trying to get the little sucker out! One of my professors was running all around the beach asking if anyone had tweezers. The cafe on the beach said to put olive oil on it......ok. So then I had olive oil on my toe, two of the Arcadia staff members had a go at the stupid thing. Nothing. Then we finally got tweezers but I still couldn't remove it! It was so small and just a little itty bitty portion of it was sticking out of the skin. Not only was I not able to remove the little nusiance, but I didn't get to go swimming :'( I was one with the splinter until I got back to my apartment that night :(

It really is true, you can't take me anywhere!

:P

-m