Thessaloniki

 Today was a sight-seeing day as we drove to Amphipolis to see the famous lion statue.  The sun was sure in the wrong spot for these pictures but the lion was HUGE!

I'm sure there were Starbucks in Greece although I think I only saw one!!  These must have been the alternative because every city we went through had "Coffee Island"!

Just a cool picture at one of the harbors!

We arrived at Philippi where Marc Anthony defeated Brutus and St. Paul first preached the gospel in Europe.  This is the archaeological site where we saw the ruins of two basilicas, and the theatre.

And finally, this is the place where Paul spent time in prison.

Then we were off to St. Lydia's Baptistry - the place where Paul baptized the first woman in Europe - a beautiful setting!

The inside was a lot of marble - everywhere you looked there were paintings - it was just gorgeous inside!

Here is the river where Paul baptized Lydia and others.

Another Pastor was there with his group doing a reading.

And one of the highlights of the trip was when one of the girls got water out of the stream and Pastor re-baptized us - a very moving, emotional time!

Here's an olive tree with hundreds of olives on it!

We headed back to our hotel - it was nice to have 2 nights at this place and a nice dinner was served!  Once again we were very tired from all of the sightseeing and tomorrow would be another early morning time to set our suitcases outside our door before we headed to breakfat!