greece is now my middle name part I

my first view of greece from the ferry....


ok so as we all know i am sure i had like a 2 1/2 or 3 week holiday from school and during that time i went to norway, greece, and rome. now i will begin to tell you about the second two parts of my trip. so here we go.

alright so my trip consisted of myself, courtney, and another girl named danielle. we left on easter sunday and headed to stansted the airport that is like 2 hours basically away from me ugh. so we show up and its basically the most unholiday i felt so far from being here. i mean no easter egg hunt? whats that about??? so we jump our flight to bari italy and get our trip underway. since we couldnt find a single hostel in bari we decided to stay in the airport on sunday night and then head into town the next day and catch out ferry outta italy and into greece. our plan worked well until we found out this airport you dont really sleep at. it was nothing like stansted at night where it feels like you are at a giant slumber party. oh well after some very broken italian with night security we got it all sorted. after a very cold night cause they turned what seemed like arctic wind on (or some serious ac) we woke up around 6 and kinda hung out until we could get into town. our day in bari consisted of us walking around the port and by the ocean and then going back to the ferry launch and sitting out on a terrace for about 4 hours soaking up the sun and starting our tan! so when we finally hopped our ferry to patras greece (which was a nice 15 hour ferry trip) we found our place where we were gonna be sleeping and settled in. the place we were sleeping was the deck. yep the deck. the actual deck. imagine that. we didnt think it was gonna be that bad BUT the way they have it set up we were under cover but it creates a wind tunnel. the coldest thing i have EVER slept in in my life. it was horrible. so i woke up the other girls and we moved inside and slept on a stair landing, but it was hard to find room since all the other cheap/poor/unsuspecting backpackers were sprinkled all over the floor.

we rolled into patras the next day around noon but that was after us being woken up because some guy was trying to hoover us up, and i woke up to him basically sucking up my hair. whatever. not the best wake up call. so we get to patras hope a bus into athens, get lost because a lady cant give good directions and then find our hostel on good ole victor hugo street. when we got there we meet our other room mate and her name was wing from taiwan, she was sooo cool. we ended up hanging out with her everyday of our trip there. we called it an early night after some food and checking out the city at night a bit since we were all tired from travelling. but the next day....

we got up pretty early and head up to the acropolis!!!! we walked up there and found out the good news that all students within the eu get in for free. awesome, thank you england!!!!! when we got up there we actually saw some kids that we had met on the ferry and had seen previously the night before while we were eating. thought that was pretty funny since there are how many people in athens???? so we get up there and the first thing i see is...

forbidden to sing or make loud noises???? seriously what are they on about??? dont they know who i am??? whatev acropolis!

it was so crazy though being up there cause you can see soooo much of the city and i really had no idea how big athens is, but the city just crawls into the hills like giant arms. crazy. so even thought we were up there around 10 am it was already SOOO insane hot out. oh my goodness. it was rough, sweating buckets just standing is always attractive. but it was so crazy to see all of these different buildings, like the parthenon still standing after about a gazillion years, it genius.

it took me forever to take this picture cause people kept walking in front of me. i was mad.

ok dont hate me but it is really early in the morning and for some odd reason i started blogging and i wasnt tired and now i am three pictures in and about to pass out from exhaustion. so sorry to be so lame but oh well you will get over it. i will blog later and until then you all can deal with the amazingness that is like oh i dont know....4 paragraphs that lack significant detail and three pictures that arent particularly interesting.