If we were in old times, Dad would be paying for a giant statue of Zeus

On our second day of the tour, we woke up in Olympia and toured the ruins. It was so cool to see the temples and training areas where Olympians trained so long ago! I especially liked visiting the track stadium where they competed in the running events. My brothers, Dad, and I raced each other. We started at the “starting block” (it wasn’t really a block, but rather a long flat stone column on the ground that stretched across the width of the field with two grooves for the runners to put their feet), not expecting Dad to pull any tricks, and waited for Mom to count us off. The rules were to run to the end of the field and back. Simple, right? Well, Dad wanted to make sure that he won, by any means necessary. He started a couple seconds early and then made the rest of us run even farther than what he had stated earlier. He turned around and beat all of us, except for Findlay, who had stayed behind with Dad and didn’t fall for his trick! In the old times, athletes who cheated would have to pay to make a giant statue of Zeus and then inscribe on it the way they cheated. Luckily for Dad, we didn’t make him do that. I loved visiting Olympia.

Next, we toured a hands-on Archimedes museum that was super fun. There were reconstructed inventions of Archimedes, who was a Greek mathematician, engineer, and inventor.

That night, we arrived in the amazing town of Delphi. Some of the sights reminded me a lot of Marera Lodge in Tanzania: pretty trees and a sunset on a mountainside. If you ever have the chance to visit Olympia and or Delphi, I would definitely recommend it.