Field trip

When you're learning about the ancient world in school, it's pretty convenient to have a full-size, exact replica of the Parthenon 10 minutes from your house:

We learned lots of cool things from our tour guide, not least of which is that one should never assume that a man with a foot-long, braided rattail couldn't know much about ancient Greek architecture:

Andy has been reading Greek myths to the boys, and James rattled off answer after answer to our guide's questions. That's Medusa's head on Athena's shield, obviously:

Liam pushing the 7-ton door, due to some engineering marvel discovered by the Greeks that I didn't quite catch:

We're nerds and we like it: