Off to Ypres

On October 29th all of the Y9s took a bus ride into Belgium for a History trip. We've been learning about WW1 in History, so we got to go to lots of depressing cemeteries.

Fun! (I'm exaggerating)

The first one was for British and French soldiers - or people in the Triple Entente. There were loads of rows of graves - and lots of them were 'unknown unto god' meaning that they didn't know who they were. 

The second cemetery we went to was for the Germans. It was a lot gloomier (mass graves instead of individual graves, dark trees)

The last one looked a bit like the first one - the graves were the same, but there were less of them. There was one grave for a 15 year old. 

All of these photos are from the first cemetery. 

Memorial

Between the poppies, row on row

The Olympic Stadium

On the last day after Ariana and Max had left we went to see the Olympic Stadium that was used in the ancient times. It is the only major stadium in the world that is made entirely out of white marble. 

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The Athens Gate Hotel

Our hotel was perfect distance from lots of good sites. The Parthenon, the Parthenon Museum, nice restaurants, loads of stores, the Olympic Stadium, Zeus's Temple, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and quite a few other places.

Ariana massaging Ashlynn, Ashlynn massaging Max, Max flipping through TV channels!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL 

The Parthenon!

When people think of Greece this is probably the first thing that pops into mind. The Temple of Athena - the goddess of Athens. 

It managed to survive through lots of hard times, though the inner part was destroyed, some of the columns are destroyed. the roof is gone, and all of the decoration is gone. But other than that - it's a pretty cool place.

Ashlynn, Max, Ariana and I standing at the back of the temple.

View of the theater that is on the surrounding hill

Front of the temple - you can see, there were lots of people.

View of Athens

View of a temple not far off, that we went to later that day

Into Athens

After a few days spent in a small town, we drove to Athens - the capital of Greece. 

Our hotel had a wonderful view of two ancient Greek sites. 

From the roof-top cafe we could see the parthenon

And from our window we could see Zeus's Temple.

  

Dog Domain

The same day we also went to a Greek castle and some other historic sites. At the castle there were loads of cute dogs. 

Castle. It was fun to see where the different parts of the castle were - eg the granary.  

There were two awesome cute puppies! We wanted to steal them and take them with us.

Max and Ariana videoing the other puppy.

The Massive Greek Theater - the real one!

Once the dads had figured out where to drive, it was easy to find the massive - 50 row - theater. 

The acoustics were amazing - Daddy dropped a coin at the bottom and we could hear it on the 50th row!!

Awesome photo

Max & Ashlynn

Open aired theater - beautiful view from the top rows