Ancient Wonders

Can you name the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? Before the cruise, I thought I could, but it turns out I was missing a few. Matthew and Julia helped me fill in the holes:
The Great Pyramid at Giza
The Lighthouse at Alexandria
The Colussus at Rhodes
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Mausoleum at Halicarnussus
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
I can now and forever name them all. What changed, you ask? Well, our cruise was called Ancient Wonders, and it only took me 4 days on board to realize why--we were going to see the sights of the Ancient Wonders! Pretty amazing how that works, huh? We just wanted to see Egypt and Greece, but we got world history thrown in for free! The Hanging Gardens were too far inland for the cruise ship, but we hit all the rest. Only the Ancient Pymamid is still standing. The rest were destroyed, mostly by earthquakes, but it was still pretty cool to see where they were.

We docked in Alexandria, site of the Ancient Lighthouse, and I'll let Julia give you the rundown:

Here's Julia:
"We woke up and went to breakfast then we got off the boat and met our tour guide. She was nice. Her name was Faten. It was a long bus ride but Faten talked a lot about the history of Cairo. It was really boring but she said that it would help us. Then she talked to us about the stuff you could get like necklaces or bracelets or rings that would have your name on it in hieroglyphics. I got one-- it was a necklace. Its called a cartouche. It's really cool. When we got there we went to the pyramids they were really cool but you couldn't go in.
Sarah and I got to ride on and camel.

And Matt and Ben on another one. And Anna went on one on by herself. It was awsome. They ride us out into the desert and take us back again, but still I rode on a camel and I got a cool head thingy. Then we went to the sphinx. It was really big with no nose. Then we went to a castle and a mosque where you had to take your shoes off.

We went to a papyrus place where they make papyrus and you could get t-shirts too, but they were really ugly. The we drove back to Alexandria. We ate dinner at the buffet. Then we went to bed."

Yep, that about sums it up. Pretty Amazing.
Two Ancient Wonders down, five more to go.