66 Degree Weather

 We are so happy to be out and about in this wonderful weather and not shoveling snow in Utah.  Bonus that we are getting the moisture we so desperately need in Utah and we are in warm sunny Athens!

When we first arrived in Athens, we fried our water pix and our clocks.  Today after a meeting in downtown, we went searching for a store that Kim found on the internet.  The first store we went in was a different department on each level.  You would ride the escalator to hair and make up.  The next floor was purses. The next floor was men's clothing.  The next floor....

No water pix.  We crossed the crazy busy center of town and began looking for a store that sold only water pixs.  You will have to reverse the order of pictures to arrive at the broken escalator that took us down to this dark basement where there was a small office that sold water pix. We bought one for three times the cost of one in the states.  Teeth are important.  

None of these pictures are where the traffic was.  I was busy dodging cars.  If you read the graffiti on one of the walls, you might get an idea of the district we were in.  

In this little dark retail area where we found the water pix, I met a woman that was sitting outside her studio.  She had her hair pulled up in a loose twist on top of her head and was quite lovely.  She spoke beautiful English, is an artist and Greek.  She said you can't make money as an artist in Greece.  She showed us her paintings and invited us to her art and fashion show.  Then she told me about the walls that I was taking a picture of.  They sold paint across from her studio and many graffiti artists try out the colors of the paint on the walls of the retail stores in the basement. 

She told me she loves the walls.  

Then we decided to take a different metro to see some of downtown Athens. 

They have statues.  More statues than I have ever seen. 

There were more but you get the idea.  This was all in a half hour walk. 

This is such a fun picture because it is an old building in front of a new building. 

Orange Juice Machine

It was fun to watch the girl put oranges in this juice machine.  We ordered juice at a bakery once.  I think they squeezed it by hand because it took a half an hour for it to be served.  The Greeks are not ones to be in a hurry.  

We asked the sisters to help us learn Greek and had a lesson this week.  Today I looked for Theta on all the signs, etc.  I saw the letter once.  Θ or ϴ