So there is quite a bit to cover since my last post. I've definitely explored a lot more of Europe. I spent a week in London with my business class and we had an absolutely wonderful time. We had beautiful weather, which was a nice change from the cloudy skies of Copenhagen. We also had the opportunity to visit a few businesses, which was relatively interesting. My favorite visit was to Wimbledon. We got to tour the grounds and even the press room, which was pretty cool. I have a lot of other stories from London, but because my limited ability to blog I'm going to keep it relatively short.

After we returned from London I only had one week alone in Copenhagen before one of my best friends from school, Shannon, and my parents visited. I had a great time touring the city with Shannon and my parents, and Shannon and I also had the opportunity to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, with all of the crazy Australians, Brits, and Danes, the only ones that seemed to not really celebrate were the Irish, but I figure we don't really have that many Irish here. The weekend Shannon left my parents and I went to Stockholm. We had originally planned on taking the train, but it was sold out. So, because of my parent's desire to see the swedish countryside, we rented a car and drove all the way to Stockholm. My mom fell asleep almost immediately and so she unfortunately missed all the beautiful snow covered scenery. We had a great time in Stockholm. It is an absolutely beautiful city and the sweds are super friendly and outspoken, which is so different than the Danes. After we got back to Copenhagen my parents only had one last week. As the week continued the weather actually become quite nice. I was actually able to sit outside in the sun, which was a first. We all had a wonderful last week together and on Friday my parents headed home and I headed off to Greece.

After a few hours of delays and a long flight sitting next to a ridiculously terrible smelling man we were in Greece. It was nearly 3 am, but we were all really excited to be on vacation so after another hour and a half of public transportation into Athens, we had finally checked into our hostel and climbed into bed. The next morning we woke up around 8 am and quickly got dressed and ready to explore Athens. We explored all the most famous sites of Athens. I walked up the steps of the Acropolis and the Parthenon. Athens is a city where you can't go more than ten feet without running into ruins, they are literally everywhere you go. Athens, however, is a pretty dirty city. Trash liters the streets and the city is extremely smoggy.

We didn't really spend all that much time in Athens though, because the next day we went to Aegina, the closest island to Athens. It was absolutely beautiful, but the ferry ride there was crazy rocky. The ship was rocking back and forth so much that all the furniture would slide from one side of the room to the other every time the ship rocked. It was so rocky that at one time I even fell off the bench I was lying on. The old man in the cabin came up to me and told me that I should probably place pillows bellow in case it happened again! It was so funny. Everyone is the cabin was laughing.

So... I know I'm kind of in the middle of a story, but I'm a little tired of blogging so I will be back tomorrow for a more complete summary of my vacation.

Love you all!

Acropolis