Who Likes Pictures?

Ok everyone...here's the moment you've all been waiting for.  For the first time in Scott on the Rocks history, we have pictures!  That's right ladies and gents, consider this as a passport filler for all of you.  This once in a lifetime opportunity allows you to see multiple different countries, stand in the shoes of the Three Caballeros (Bill, Ryan, and Matt), and satiate your desire to be a world traveler! So, without further ado, you may click on the links below which will lead you to a few wonderful slideshows outlining our journeys so far.  Enjoy!

Click on this link to see a slideshow London and Paris!

Click on this link to see another slideshow of more Paris!

Click on this link to see a slideshow of the best pictures from London and Paris along with all the pictures so far from Greece!

Alright I hope all of those pictures worked for you guys...if some of them didn't show up, you can always click the link on the bottom of the slideshow pages that says "back to main view."  I hope that'll work as a fail safe, but hey, I'm as new to this as you guys are.  And I apologize that all of these pictures are scattered everywhere, but that's what I get for waiting to put them online until I had way too many to try and work with.  But hey, I did it and to some people that's all that counts.

Now that you're either angered because the pictures didn't work or happy because I finally did something productive with this blog, I guess I should update you all on what else has been going on here.  As you can see from the pictures, Matt and I made it up to the top of the Acropolis the other day because we were bored and we had miraculously finished all the tons of homework that we had been assigned.  The view from up there was amazing.  We could even see the sea!  And speaking of seas, we went to another beach since the last post.  This one was even better than the first because of how clear the water was.  We could see rocks that were about 10-12 feet (sorry, 3.04-3.65 meters) below us without it even looking like they were underwater.  I guess we have Poseidon to thank for that.

And while we're on the subject of Poseidon, that's whose temple we went and saw the other day before going to the beach.  The temple was built on a peninsula out into the Aegean that had sheer cliffs on all sides, so that was pretty cool...again, this is when I hope those picture links worked cause it's on there.

Besides that, not much else has really happened.  We still haven't even had every class yet because our history teacher has been away (he has a good reason, but it might soon be time to start asking for a refund).  For art history, we went to the National Archeological Museum today and I fittingly forgot my camera.  I'll just say we didn't see anything important and then none of us will feel like we missed out, mmm k?

Friday we leave for Santorini for a couple days.  Now, when I told you about this before, I had stated that we had it all figured out and booked.  But the plans have kinda changed a little bit.  After figuring out that we could save a little money if we didn't use the travel agent that St. John's and St. Ben's works with, we decided that we'd anger said travel agent and go on our own.  It was later discovered by me and most of the group that the money that we "saved" was actually only on the ferry over, which means we now have to sit in airplane style seats for 7 straight hours instead of being in four-person cabins which the travel agent had booked us in but said we could drop if we wanted to save money.  So, basically we ticked off our travel agent for nothing, are now traveling in less comfort, and get this look from the travel agent whenever we see her (which is especially scary because she's a woman).  Perfect.

Alright, I'm sure I'll have plenty of stories to blog about after Santorini, but at least you have some pictures to tide you over. And if you didn't like them or they didn't work, just listen to this song about pictures.  That should tide anyone over.  Cya.

Special Shout-out of the Day: Stephanie Twelves.  Steph, I am assigning you a job to do that will benefit the blog.  Since I am entirely uncreative when it comes to titles (remember, Charles came up with the name for this thing), I am calling on you to come up for a name for all the people who read this blog.  I'm sick and tired of writing "you," and "you all," etc.  "You all" need a title.  So get back to me on the comment section (anyone else can do this too, but no one is required to...except Steph).

European Insult Tally:

Bill: 1

Scott: 2

Matt: 1 - Matt finally scored a point this week during the walk around the Acropolis when he insulted an unassuming little Greek boy.  Earlier in the week, we had heard in our Art History classes that slaves were the ones who mined the marble from deep inside Greece's hills.  This was a terrible job, and only the worst slaves and criminals were sent to do this.  Well, as we were walking back down the hill, a little boy sprinted in front of Matt, cutting him off and almost making Matt fall.  I chalked this up to Matt having a poor center of balance, but Matt quickly yelled to the boy to "watch out or I'll (Matt) send you to the mines!"  Ouch.  Well at least we all got a history lesson out of Matt's insult.

Ryan: 1

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