Napflion is close to the ancient Greek city of Mycenae. The Mycenaean Greeks were some of the oldest Greeks known to exist. They lived around 1600-1100 B.C. and their ancient city was written about in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey about 1000 years after they existed. The Mycenaean King Agamemnon, according to Greek mythology, lived here and was the famed king who launched 1000 ships to send to and destroy Troy after beautiful Helen was kidnapped from Greece and taken there. The Greeks have excavated the site where Mycenae stood and we took a tour of the ruins and tomb where Agamemnon was supposedly buried.
The Boyd's under the Lion's Gate of Mycenae, the entrance to the city.
Olivia taking a break among Mycenaean ruins. It's tough to be 3 years old.
The entrance to the grand Beehive Tomb, the supposed burial place of Agamemnon. Mary Ann and Olivia are reading up on it first before they enter.
Justin is about to enter the tomb. I wonder what's inside....
Tourists and not much else. O and I in the entrance. As you can see, it gets the "beehive" name because it looks like one on the inside.
After Mycenae, we went back to Napflion to tour the Palamidi Fortress. This fort lies atop the city of Napflion and was built by the Venetian occupiers in the 17th century. O and I are walking among the fortress.
Photo op with the Aegean Sea behind her.
And look! There's our cruise ship!
Later that night...O found a little creature in the bed.
She thought the mouse made out of a washcloth was so cool! 
Had to include this one. At the kid's club on the ship, they had a pirate day and taught the kids pirate sayings, made pirate hats and painted their faces. She was so proud of this get-up. We went to lunch with her looking like this and she was talking like a pirate the rest of the afternoon.
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