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Well, July was definitely more exciting than June, as promised.
First on the docket, orientation! Had a little bit of a hiccup with the schedule, but now I don't have to do an 8 AM physics lab 🥳.
I saw Superman with Lucy on opening day, and it quickly climbed the ranks of my favorite movies of all time. Fun fact, James Gunn went to my high school! St. Louis win!
And after that began the long haul to the graduation trip in Greece, starting with a day in New York City.
Dystopian ahh billboard outside our hotel room.
Lots of musicals (and Stephen Colbert before the cancellation announcement)
Peak spotted.
It's clobberin' time! I still haven't seen the movie, but we ran into this super cool mural outside of a McDonalds.
The Superman brainrot was still very much intact when I saw this billboard.
Pigeons.
The New York Public Library! With the lions!
Various shots of Bryant Park and the surrounding buildings
After that, our time in New York was coming to an end, so it was time to hop on the 8 hour flight to Geneva and then onward to Athens!
View from the apartment and a little piece of home.
After a very solid sleep, we hit the Acropolis first thing the next morning
Said hi to the Caryatid replicas for Lauren.
I took Jack's Lego Parthenon back to the actual Parthenon for the second time (see his last June blog post). Pretty proud of this shot.
The first hospital (if you call herbal posions medicine)! Always a good visit for those medically-inclined of us
And the Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus for the theater-minded.
You know you're in Greece when the subway station looks like this.Â
Next up, Delphi! I definitely did not huff any prophecy-granting fumes (even though the caverns are like right under the temple)
The National Archaeological Museum!!!!! Old Stuffâ„¢!!!!!!!
Man those Mycaeneans know how to do gold. And statues.
Hehe octopus go brrrrrr (actual thought process of the ancient Mycaeneans btw)
This section is for swords. Yes I have enough pictures to justify an entire section.
Linear A and Linear B tablets! In person!
More pots. Old pots and slightly less old pot.
Muralsssssss
Some of the oldest marble statues we have.
Hey I know that one! (it was in one of my documentaries)
Rhett posed with this Posedion statue and was very quickly instructed Not To Do That by a guard standing nearby.
OLD ENGINEERING OLD ENGINEERING AHHHHH
Athena Parthenos miniature replica!Â
Horsies :3
How I be standing in the corner of Ye Olde Club looking at my stone tablet
Getcha head in the game, right guys?
More statues.
One of a few realistic statues of Augustus
dude dude dude the cloth look at the CLOTH
Some cool marble armor from the Roman era
And later that night, marble carving! This is the one picture where I'm not hunched over like a mad scientist.
Our last day wandering around Athens
The Arch of Hadrian, which Dad and Rhett insisted on posing with
Temple of Olympian Zeus as taken through a fence nearby.
Some more cool views of the Acropolis, and going up on the hill Paul preached on when he was in Athens.
The Temple of Hephaestus in the Ancient Agora! One of the most intact temples of its kind in the entire ancient world.
After the whirlwind of Athens, it was time for the vacation part of this vacation to start. Some family friends joined us for this part, starting on Mykonos.
Next stop, a day trip to Delos! We stumbled on an active archaeological site with the House of Masks, and also saw some orange moss growing on everything that is very much giving Tears of the Kingdom vibes.
Naxos and some quotes from Project Hail Mary and The Martian, which I blitzed through on the beach. Also some salt deposits and a crab.
And to close out this little adventure, Santorini!
Back to New York, where the only picture I took was about the Mets baby love the Mets alright let's get a home run baby love the Mets let's go Mets.
(And some books and Legos in the airport too)
And after that whirlwind, the night after I got back it was time to see AJR in concert for the second time with Calla, her boyfriend Finn, and Rhett in tow.
And finally, to round out the month, a trip to the bookstore for Aurora and my housing assignment at the U. Fellow Gophers, feel free to drop by Frontier Hall sometime!
Welp, that's all for this month (I say like this wasn't the longest blog post to date).
I really don't wanna think about the fact that I move into college next month.
Ah well, gettin' old sucks, here's the tunes,
Mason
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