Today was clean up day at the site. We all headed down to the bath to cut (not pull) weeds. The reason behind the cutting is if you pull the roots of the weeds, you could pull up tiles and seriously damage the mosaic floor. We pretty much spent the entire morning doing that and cleaning off the mosaic with water and brooms. Tyler and I even cut down a fig tree that was growing in the wall (go FIGure. Ha. Ha.) As mundane as the work was, it was still a bit exciting to do some restoration and get the place looking shiny and new a (ok, not really) again. After the heavy labor was done, Jon and I went out to walk the site and talk about the tour. We did a lot of trouble shooting and came up with a rough idea of the different stops.
Map of proposed stops on site
When we were all done at the site, we ran home to change and then headed out to the beach down the road. Even though the water was a bit cold, we didn't let that stop us. We were determined to do some snorkeling, so we put on our gear and got in the sea. After the initial shock, the water was quite refreshing, and we were able to see not only some interesting sea creatures, but old foundations of some sort on the bottom. That's the interesting thing about Greece; when you go to the beach, you're just as likely to be sitting on ancient pottery as you are to be sitting on rocks. The stuff's everywhere. When we got back to the hotel, Anastasia asked us what we were doing for dinner, and was so appalled that we were going to cook frozen things that she insisted on cooking for us and teaching us how to make an easy sort of quiche. Our cat friend joined us, of course, and even let Katie pet him a bit. I'm sensing a breakthrough. Also, Jon realized that we had accidentally left the hose at the site on for about 7 hours...oops. We'll do better with that next time.
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