Meteora

Starting with last night while we were in the hotel, two friends and I talked with a British couple. They were very sweet. We gave them our address' and they are going to write to us. Now I have British pen pals! This morning we got up and drove up into the mountains of Meteroa to see the biggest monastery in these formations. The Monestary is on the highest peak of these mountains, so we drove and hiked up there in the pouring rain, luckily the thunder and lighting had stopped about 10 minutes before we went up. The Monestary was really different and the view was amazing! It was also really neat getting to see all the caves that are built into the sides of these mountains. These caves were once homes to some of the first hermits in Greece. One cave is full of colorful scarves that are taken up there every year on saint George day in honor of one of the monks that saved a little girl that had been wounded in the hills. One of the best parts of this trip out to Delphi and Meteora was getting to see ruins from World War II, we got to see a memorial and old buildings where the Nazis executed a ton of Greek civillians, men , women , and children. Also this afternoon on the way home, we stopped at a memorial on the battle field where the Spartans fought the Persians and 300 Greeks died.