I made it!!!

Well I made it to Greece! It's really odd that I am finally here. The traveling experience was quite interesting. The first flight from Spokane to Minneapolis went fine. I sat next to a really interesting guy from Quebec. I had a 3 hour layover in Minneapolis and then I was off for another connection in Paris. That flight was exhaustingly long. I have never been on planes much except for short trips, so that was an interesting experience all in itself. 10 hours later we finally made it. The Paris airport was huge and completely confusing. I got slightly lost after trying to find Mrs. Sitler's gate so I could meet her there. No one was very helpful and didn't really want to give me the time of day. We managed to meet up and make the flight here to Athes. Everything went fairly smoothly as far as flights go, and except for a delay for Roxanne and trying to find eachother in Paris. We met my parents at the airport. It was good to see them as it had been over 2 weeks since they left. I guess they had a great time in Turkey and would definitely go back. (Who knew that my dad would actually like it?) After we got to the airport here, we came to the hotel and then we went to dinner. We went to a fabulous place that has Pita bread with all sorts of fillings. Man was it delicious. After dinner we went to the Greek Orthodox church. Today is Easter Sunday and last night there was a huge celebration at the church. The place we were sitting was right in front of two pillars and so I couldn't really see much, but from what I could see, it was pretty cool I guess that Easter one of the biggest holidays here and everyone makes a big deal of it. At the end of the service, (I couldn't understand a word as it was in Greek) the priest lights a candle. Almost everyone there had a candle, and the priest lit a few people's and then everyone lit everyone elses. Then everyone carries their lit candles up to the acropolis and then back down to the church. We didn't have candles and so we just watched everyone else. We found out about the service and everything quite by accident before we left. I was glad that we were able to see some of the Greek culture firsthand though. So the service went until after midnight and by the time we got back to the hotel I could hardly stay awake. I didn't sleep at all on the plane because it was too loud and I couldn't get comfortable. So as of last night, I had been up for 35 hours straight. We woke up at 8 this morning and had breakfast. Today we are off to see the changing of the gaurd (which I guess is a big deal on Easter Sunday) and then we walk around and see what there is to do. This hotel has free internet, so I will actually be able to get on here to let you all know what we're up to. Well my 20 minutes is up, so I will have to get on later. I'll be posting some pics if I can.