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It all comes to an end

 This'll be my last in the long, drawn out, overextended series on our trip to Turkey and Greece. I'd hoped to be done by the end of April before starting my next class. Well, I finished the class! 6 weeks ago. So, here goes. The last post  points out that the further away I get from the dates described, the more I'm losing. This is evermore evident in this post about our last couple of days in Athens. In trying to use e-mail/itinerary/pictures as my clues, I've still lost most of a day. Let's just pretend that Mila and I slept in SUPER late on April 7th.   (added later) I think we went to the National History Museum, located in the old Parliament building. It still houses the assembly halls used by parliamentarians. What I found most interesting was that it focused on the story of Greek independence from the Ottomans. We saw much of the same sassiness that we'd seen in the Acropolis Museum, downtalking the Ottomans. I really don't remember why I don't h