many of my fellow students, enjoying lunch in an old - make that ancient - arena in philippi. we later staged a reenactment of both a gladiator fight and one of those man-getting-ripped-apart-by-lions things. there is actually still tunnels and rooms underneath that they kept the lions in, and the path leading into the arena...scary stuff.

my roommate lindsey and i where we belong - on pedestals.

some of our boys pretending to...i'm not sure, exactly. something.

the apostle paul introduces himself to lydia, the first european convert (acts 16:11-15)
***THIS IS A REENACTMENT! THESE ARE NOT THE HISTORICAL CHARACTERS!***
but this really is that river...

there was a man walking by, at the time.

magic in philippi.

we went strolling around a shoreline in philippi, where the water looked tropical.

dad, i just wanted you to know i'm holding true, no matter what they say! (and believe me, they say a lot...)
also since i keep writing 'philippi' in all these captions for the pictures from philippi...here's a note: they actually spell philippi 'filippoi'. so there you go, you've been wrong your whole life. that should give you a bit of humility for your day.

here's me descending into the canyon...you can't blame me for the bad picture because that's me in the air. also it looks like i was just dropping down through the air, but in actuality i had to bounce myself off of rocks and stuff. you just can't see that in this picture, due to my stopping such bouncing to pose for the inept cameraperson.

here's my team, "mossy panda", eating lunch at the base of the rock we were about to scale. death we consider gain...