Wild Weekend

So a few weeks ago, a Denise and I decided to go to Nashville to visit the temple of my patron goddess, Athena. In more simpler terms, we wanted to visit the Parthenon in Tennessee. And we decided that last Saturday would be the day. I got Kendrick, Kento, and even Yukari to come along. It was a metric shit-ton of fun, even though we were on the road for a total of about 10 hours (Google Maps said 12, so I was able to cut the time by 15%!) The trip was straining and I was a bit worried about keeping everyone enthusiastic (visiting a life-sized replica of the Parthenon is random no matter how you spin it), but I know that everyone had a great time! My pictures are on facebook, in case anyone wanted to see.

The Nashville Parthenon there is "the only life-sized replica of" the Greek Parthenon. Inside, there's a huge statue of the goddess Athena gilded in gold. There are a ton of sculptures of the human form and of many other gods of Greek mythology. Educational? Maybe not so much. But fun and interesting? By the hammer of Thor, yes.

Since we were on the road for 10 hours, we saw a lot of beautiful scenery and encountered a couple of very interesting landmarks. The first one was this gigantic white cross. If you want info on it, visit www.crossusa.org to see what it looked like. This thing was huge! And secondly, we encountered billboards pointing to a town called "Metropolis" that has a "Giant Superman statue." We just couldn't resist this sight, so I took the exit and found the statue. It was ridiculously awesome hahaha!

A lot of pictures were put up on facebook, and my roommate hasn't even uploaded his yet. I'm not going to post them here though, since I think anyone who reads this already has facebook.

In other news, I finally beat Patapon. It was a great game and totally worth $20. To fill my void of fun and new games, I decided to spoil myself and bought both Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core AND God of War: Chains of Olympus at one time. I'm currently playing GoW, and man - it is good. Not very smart as I promised myself to be productive again...haha