Impersonating the Oracle

So, we were all up and ready to go at seven in the morning yesterday to go to Delphi. Anyone who knows me understands my struggle of being awake and functioning at this hour. Luckily, we had a two hour bus ride to Mount Parnassus to catch up on sleep and watch the beautiful scenery fly by. I know that right now I'm still on the initial high of being in Greece, but I really don't think I would ever grow tired of these views.

Anyway, we got a little bit of history on Delphi as we travelled towards it. Greeks used to walk the entire way that we drove and climb this mountain to see an oracle. They would ask the oracle a question about their lives and the oracle would give them a response. Between the long walk there and the wait for an oracle, this little adventure could take weeks for the Greeks. Then, they would go see an oracle, who was supposed to be a pure female, and the oracle, who was high off of the gasses rising from the ground, would tell them something as a response to the question. A lot of times, these responses were very vague, and they were in metaphors. That way, if anyone came back and complained that their prophesy didn't turn out how they had hoped, the oracle could just tell them that they misinterpreted her meaning.
So, we hike up this mountain to explore all of the ancient ruins that are Delphi. Just a little side note: I love the hiking. The Greeks love to put stairs places and everything seems to be on an incline. Anyway, some of the ruins are in great shape, one of them being a large stone with an whole through it. The oracle would sit behind the stone and give their ambiguous advice to the person on the other side of it. I, being the ever ridiculous one, decided it would be fun to give out advice. I'm pretty good at it. So, after Rebecca was done giving her advice, I got behind the rock and started to rattle off some pretty good prophetical stuff! I was then yelled at in Greek for disrespecting the ruins. Oops. I guess from now on I'll have to charge for my advice. Here's a picture of my criminal activity.

After walking through and admiring the ruins we went to the museum, which was full of beautiful works of art that had been excavated. We got in trouble again for trying to take pictures next to these artifacts. The whole "behaving yourself" thing really isn't working out for us, but the whole experience was beautiful and eye opening.