PALERMO

Palermo

Palermo

Just a quick note to say that we arrived in Palermo last night (Friday). We are a little behind on our blogging since some of the hotels claim to have wifi, but we have been unable to connect to the internet. At our hotel in Palermo, the wifi actually works, but we have been denied access to our blog. Apparently, the wifi service's firewall has determined that our blog possibly contains material that is inappropriate!! Imagine that!
We have had a very exciting day in Palermo. We hope to have some students blog about it and fill you in on the details. Of course, more photos to come. We leave Palermo tomorrow at 4:30 a.m. for an 8:00 flight to Rome. Italy switches to daylight savings time tonight, so you know what that means... one less hour of sleep!
Bounanotte~
Caryn

SEGESTA - spectacular Greek temple and theater - perfomances!!

Island of Motya

amiamo Leo!!

Hotel Admeto - Selinunte

SELINUNTE - MORE

SELINUNTE - more

POLAR BEARS IN SELINUNTE

SELINUNTE

Selinunte

Hey, Alex here!!

Today was lots of fun!! We visited lots of temples, and were able to climb on lots of the broken columns. It was quite an adventure. We finished the day with olive tasting and chocolate tasting! It was a great day!!! I will bring home some chocolates so I can show you how awesome they were!!

Thanks for letting me go on the trip Mom and Dad!!!! :) <3

-Alex :)

Empty Town

Today, while Meghan and I (Christie) were walking along the main road of Selinunte, we expected to see at least several Italian people. Instead, we saw none. The roads were completely empty, devoid of the usual cheer and business of usual Italian towns. We went to the end of a long path over the ocean and sat on a bench for a while, getting sprayed occasionally by the rowdy waves as we watched the ocean's tempermental waters and waves. After meeting up with some eighth grade girls, we walked for a long time up the road to find a mysterious gelato shop, which apparently was "amazing." Upon arriving at the store, Meghan and I were given a scoop not only of the two flavors we asked for, but smaller spoonfuls of all the flavors in the store! We came back to the hotel full and content.

Christie

AGRIGENTO - more Greek temples

Agrigento - Greek Temples

Wednesday, we went to the amazing classical Greek temples in Agrigento! We started at the temple to Hera, and moved to the temple to Concord, the Roman gods of peace and harmony. The temple of Concord is the second best preserved temple in the world! It was amazing, the whole temple was rebuilt. Barely any pieces were missing! We were able to climb through the ruins of the temple of Hercules, or Heracles in Greek, which was a lot of fun. Lastly, we walked through the ruined state of the temple of Zeus, which is the biggest temple to Zeus. Even in it's ruined state, it was an amazing site. The temple was held up by Telemon, huge statues of Atlas, the Titan who held up the sky.

Zach

Agrigento - Greek Temples