It was the Christmas holiday, and everyone in camp Half-blood was going to Olympus for winter solstice. Chiron had decided that it would be a fun field trip, and that the new demigods would learn something from it. Everyone got into the busses, and they drove up to Olympus. Twenty by twenty, they got up to the 600nd floor of Olympus. As soon as they were all in the flying city, Chiron put them all in a corner and told them that they needed to stay safe: 'demigods, listen up! We are on mount Olympus. So, don't fall of the mountain, don't swear at anyone, don't drink alcohol, don't eat to much and don't get blasted to ashes. Have fun!' Chiron galloped away, leaving the demigods on their own on Mt. Olympus, the home of the gods.
Most demigods immediately ran of, to see what the house of their parents looked like. Percy, Annabeth, Grover and some others who had already seen Olympus, didn't rush of. That group wasn't big. Beside from the three friends, there were Clarisse, the Stolls, Katie Gardner, 1 Nemesis camper, 3 Aphrodite campers and Sheila, the blind girl. They were all looking around, talking about what they were going to do. They walked over the bridge in a relaxed manner. When they entered the city, though, even they got a kick of excitement. Olympus was so huge, that everybody who wasn't raised in the place was always smitten with its beauty. The demigods walked passed the villa's of the lesser gods: Kymopoleia, Hymenaeus, Hedone and many, many more people. All villa's were built in a different style, to the wishes of the owner. Kymopoleias house was like the wild sea at dusk, Hymenaeus had a house like a wedding place and Hedone's house looked fun. They passed a few palaces, were more important gods lived: Eros, Nemesis, Hypnos and a few more. After that, they entered a huge square with a fountain. They could see the palaces of the Olympians from where they were standing. Those houses were the biggest. All of the people who were standing on the square gasped collectively: the palaces were gorgeous. You could really see who's palace belonged to who. In the middle stood the throne room, with on both sides six palaces. The first to the right was Zeus, the first to the left Hera (They didn't know why she had her own palace. It was clearly necessary, apparently). Next to Zeus was a blue, ocean-themed palace: Poseidon's house. Poseidon lived next to Hephaestus, who practically had another forge for a house. It was pretty in it's own way. Hermes had what looked like an office, and his palace served as a space between Hephaestus and Ares. Ares' palace was red, and looked like dolorous guard before Lancelot freed it from lord Brandon. The last palace on the right was Apollo. His palace was pure gold, and even at night time it was hard to look at. Out of his windows came the sound of music (like, sounds from music, but everyone was playing My Favourite Things from the sound of music. Don't think to hard about it). On the left side, next to Hera's home, stood Demeter's house. It looked like a greenhouse, with fruit growing everywhere. She lived next to Athena, who had modeled her house to look like a library/military base/lab. It looked kind of weird, but in a weird way it worked. She lived next to Artemis. Artemis palace was plain, since she didn't hang out on the Olympus much. Yet, there were deer running around her Palace. She lived next to Aphrodite, which was a little weird. Aphrodite had a palace which looked like a fairytale castle. It looked like someone combined Neuschwanstein, Buckingham palace and the Disney castle. The last palace belonged to Dionysus. It was white, with grapevines covering most of the garden en growing over the entire place. In the middle, under the great hall, layed one more palace: Hestia's hearth, as everyone called it. The place was as humble as Hestia herself, and everyone thought it was the prettiest place on the entire Olympus. The demigods walked towards the small palace. Hestia opened the door and told them to come in. On the couch, with warm cups of tea in their hands, the demi's told her about last year. The stories got pretty crazy. Eventually, Sheila got up and walked away. Percy looked out the window, and saw she walked towards Dionysus' palace. Percy thought that was weird. He thought Sheila's mother lived on Olympus. What was she doing in the palace of a male god?
The next day, everyone got together by the lift again. They all looked tired, like they had partied the whole night long. She of the kids were clearly hungover, and Chiron was collecting the kids who had annoyed the gods that evening. Because no demigod ever truly listens to the rules.