Fried Cakey Stuff with Stuff In It

Athens, Greece

-From Damon

So I am sitting in waiting for my friend Tom to return from the evening's tennis matches. We both saw Venus Williams (who we always cheer against in the US - but not today) get crushed from front row seats about 30 feet from where they were serving. It was quite extraordinary. I left at this point to catch the Italia-Paraguay futbol match across town while Andy stayed behind to watch the doubles match with 85 year old Martina Navratilova. She's so old. I would like to see a picture of her next to the Parthenon - that would be a lot of OLDness. But, good for her though - still pluggin away and getting more exercise than probably 99 percent of us. I am in the one percent though cause I am a pro golfer...

Today was the most tiring one yet. After waking up late since we were on the wrong time (again) we immediately took off for all the old 500+ BC Greek sites that lie in, on and around the Acropolis. Unlike the museum in Prague, seeing these old ass rocks was pretty cool. We slipped our way across about 10,000 acres of marble and rocks to see the sights. I must say it was one of the neatest (that is a shout out for Beaver Cleaver) sights I had ever been around. You take these experiences so far with you, I have learned. Sometimes when you are there, you just want to take a picture and run away from the 100 degree sun. It's down the road that you are grateful and more cultured for seeing something so simple (yet so amazing).

Tomorrow we wrap up our stay in Athens. That means we will consume about 20 more gyros and fried cakey stuff with stuff in it. Despite what you may be hearing we are finding Athens to be pretty cheap - if you don't count the Olympic tickets of course - but even with them we are getting in for about 15 euro a pop. On to see USA-Greece softabll game tomorrow. The USA hasn't lost in like 30 years and has outscored opponents this tournament like 500-0 (ok, 30-0). Either way we are still pretty psyched to wave our US flags all over the place and make local people mad. We can't tell if they are talking about us. We hope our UT girl, Cat O. will pitch cause I didn't carry this big foam "Hook-em Horns" hand for nothing. If you are up in the morning check out the Today show - we may be on that as well. Matt Lauer loves Italians from Rochester.

Oh yeah, today Mr. Selleck shouted out "Bring down the house" to Venus. It was cool.

And, yes, Berlin was as Andy stated. The scenery was weak but the history was impressive. Having my German twin there also helped. It is amazing how many laughs we got out of walking around saying "Hautz-maur" (or something like that) under our breaths to random people. It means shut-up. Ahhh, the simple things in life.

We will be resting in Corfu on the beach come Friday. Precious down time to rest our legs, burnt faces, and wallets.

Adios.