(Special note from Dianne: My family is giving me great grief that the title of today's post sounds like the next edition in the Harry Potter series...)
Tuesday's highlight involved a family trip by car to the nearby coastal village of Sounio. Oh, what an adventure!! We passed SEVERAL Greek towns along the way...in fact, many that most folks NEVER see on THEIR way to Sounio. We just considered them added bonuses to our trek. :) The thing the boys will always remember about our trip down was this make-shift road block we came upon, managed by men in masks and camo suits, who were allowing some cars to pass thru and guiding others (like ours) into another roadblocked section of the highway. After making sure all doors were locked and windows up, Brad quickly got us out of there. We never knew for sure exactly what was going on, but the boys found it all very exhilarating!!
Thanks to Brad's adept navigational skills and in spite of countless uncharted roads, we did, in fact finally make it to Sounio, and it was well worth it...from every direction we saw scenes such as this...we were, to use the phrase of a dear friend, completely "gob-smacked" by the beauty around us.
It's no wonder the ancient Greeks chose this site to build the temple of Poseidon. Literally all around are sheer cliffs tumbling into the Aegean Sea, so this was an ideal site for worship of the powerful god of the sea. We, on the other hand, found it an ideal site for worship of the God who created the sea.
We took the scenic route home, along a highway right along the coast, and with the sun setting, it was breathtaking...we stopped at a grill near the beach on our way home and had none other than gyros pita and souvlakis. Don't think we've missed a day yet without eating these two favored Greek staples...And, as for the rest of our trip home, suffice it to say that many new trails were blazed, some more than once (grinning), and a good time was had by all...
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