My mom and I spent the last few days of her trip in Greece. We stayed at a great hotel in Athens and had so much fun exploring the city together. On Thursday, we took a hop on, hop off bus tour of the famous sites in Athens. We got off and explored the Acropolis and went the new Acropolis museum. It was amazing to see the ruins and artifacts from so long ago and to try to imagine how they lived back then. We had lunch at the museum café and tried the baked feta with honey and black sesame seeds. It was amazing and I couldn't believe how much I liked it. I have been having feta withdrawals because I can't find it in France, so I was in heaven. After the museum, we caught the bus back to the hotel and asked them for a suggestion of a good restaurant for dinner. We went to a cute little place a few streets away from our hotel. I had lamb and beef kebabs and my mom had some type of fish dish. After dinner, we decided to stop into a bakery on the way back to the hotel so my mom could get baklava. Then, we went back to the hotel to Skype our family for Thanksgiving. We also went to the roof of the hotel to see the Acropolis all lit up at night. The roof of our hotel had an amazing view of it and we were able to get some great pictures.
The next morning, we took the metro to the port where we took a ferry to the Island of Aegina. We spent the morning exploring the island and walking along the coast. We got some beautiful pictures of the ocean and the other Greek islands in the distance. We found a place where archeologists have uncovered the city of an ancient civilization and walked all around the ruins. It was amazing to see something so old and to be able to see little windows and remnants of buildings. There was also the ruin of a temple that we got to climb up to. We went in the museum of the ruins and saw lots of artifacts that were uncovered from the civilization that lived there. I love seeing things from ancient times and I was fascinated with all of the little painted clay jars and other things that were found. After exploring, we found a little place to eat by the water and then caught our ferry back to Athens. That night, we went to Plaka which is an area of Athens that has lots of cute shops and restaurants. We walked all around and did some shopping before finding a cute restaurant for dinner. For our last meal in Greece, I had a lamb kebab and my mom had baked lamb with potatoes. Both of our meals were really good and we had an awesome last night together. We had to wake up really early the next morning because our flight back to Paris was at 6:45am. It was a long exhausting day and it was even worse for my mom who then had to fly back to the U.S. It was so hard to say goodbye to her but I am so happy that she was able to come and that we had such an awesome week together.
