All Greek dogs are on Vallium

Well, the thing I shall tell every person I meet who wants to visit Greece. Leave only one full day for Athens, and you will get done all the site seeing you have head about all your life.
We started the day off taking the train to the acroplis and bought our passes for only 6 Euro, because of our international student id's. These tickets bought us enrty to 4 other places during the day, so it worked out well. We started the procession up the hill to the top and explored along the way. There are so many pieces of ruins here, that they don't label or even pay attention to so many of them. As we climbed the hill, there were peices of relief that our own feet were crushing below us, as I am sure many feet have crushed through the years. We saw one of the theatres and spent time at the top inspecting the parthenon and erictheon. They're beautiful, just beautiful. We spent three hours on the acropolis climbing and photographing. We even sat down for a while to do some sketches, and had many people looking over our shoulders at our work. The stone that the hill is made out of has been walked on for thousands of years, and consequentially is polished after thousands of years. I would not recommend trying to climb any of the rocks in the rain because of it. Some people managed to fall without the rain's help.When we finished up,we bougbt post cards and wrote them out at lunch. After lunch we went tourist trapping at the shops, then headed to the temple of Zeus. Which I must say, is both saddening and aweing at the same time. If anything the time of water stains and acid rain make the corinthian columns more beautiful and more mysterious. The obvious lack of about 80% of the columns however sets that bygone era at a much greater distance than it should be given our local.
Afterwards we went to both the ancient agora and the roman one. The roman one is very much in ruins, there was very little work done, and was a little disspointing. The ancient agora has been reconstructed to its original size and I want it. Its amazing and made me feel as though i was sitting in a painting. The beams were some sort of dark auburn colored wood and the ceiling was higher than you would ever imagine. We were lucky we were there in the middle of the afternoon to catch the shadows as they passed accross the tiles of the agora. It made for great photographing.
On the other side of the park was the Temple of Haphestos which was in very good condition. Whether because it is smaller and therefore sturdier than the parthenon, or becuase it was not a target of WWII I don't know. At that point my camera battery started dying. I took 175 photos today, I hope that, per day, will be enough Tiin. I got an images od a remaining statue of the Hall of the Titans (gymnasium) this things is huge, and giant. I can[t believe it is less than 1/3 the height of the original entire building. I wish I could see it.
I was amazed at the number of stray dogs that frequent this city. These dogs look like any other american mutt, but they are gorgeous dogs. None of them are mangy, or mean. In fact, everyone we met was very friendly. They were on the acropolis, living under the ruins, living at the park of the temple of Zeus, and on the street. Many, many of them were sleeping in the middle of traffic so that passersby would think they were dead. We just came to th3e comclusion, that all dogs in Athens are on vallium.