greece is now my middle name part II

pretty sunset from our 15 hour ferry ride...

ok so where did i leave off????? um i dont remember so i will just go from where i want to blog from... :)

so athens, our first day, anyways we grabbed lunch after walking around the acropolis and posing with the parthenon about a billion times. we headed to main area with lots of street vendors and food. by now we were all starving and ready to hang out for a bit and people watch. thanks to rick steve's europe on a shoestring we were able to find a place that was only a euro sixty for a sandwhich. i forget what it is called salaldkjfldjfladjfladjflzki. or something like that. a pita with tom's, beef, onions and some amazing seasoning. basically we ate there every day....IT WAS SO GOOD, i loved it.monica, me, courtney, wing, and danielle in front of the parthenonview of athens from the top of the acropolis, you can barely see the outskirts of the cityoh! courtney and i playing among ruins.....

after hanging around for about an hour in the square we decided to move on towards a giant hill that (once recommended by the guide book) was supposed to have a really amazing view for the sunset. and we figured that by the time we actually got there (after slowly moving that way) we would be there. so we headed that direction and ran into the royal palace. we decided that it was a perfect time to sit on the giant stairs and wait for the changing of the guard and people watch again. we had fun trying to decide what country different people were from. when it was time to go check out the guards we were surprised to see the outfits on these guys. i had never seen any uniform like this before, or any routine of the changing like this before either.

they were all wearing skirts and doing odd karate crane moves, i was laughing really hard. it was just so odd to see!!!!!and duh i got my picture taken with him....i mean come on!

after that we found ourselves closer to the hill than we thought so we went to a supermarket an picked up some picnic like food so we could have a dinner while atop this hill. on our way there i decided that i was SICK of being taunted with all these orange trees that were everywhere, and i wanted an orange. did i mention that basically the only trees in greece are orange and palm trees. it makes the place smell brilliant. its amazing. so i picked an orange.but i didnt know if it was gonna be good or not since it came right off the tree...IT WAS SO HORRIBLE AND SOUR. oh my goodness, it was so sour i couldnt spit it out cause my jaw locked down and i basically had to bring the jaws of life to my mouth.....never again will i pick an orange from a tree...i know what happens.

once at the top of the hill we just waited to see the sunset, but it got really cold really fast and began to rain. so we ran inside the church that was up there for a bit to wait for the sunset to hurry up and then came out for the tail end of it freezing like no tomorrow. after that we went back to the hostel, we recharged and went out for a glass of wine and met up with some british girls from our hostel and all admired our real cute greek waitor.view of the acropolis from atop the tall mountain thing...watching the clouds move in right before it began to rain on us...back on the ground we walked past the acropolis to get a good night photoi bought a gift for my backpack (grief of a sailor, a.k.a grief) and i thought the sailboat was fitting.

the next day we went to a museum, went back to the same place for lunch, people watched, went to hadrian's library, roman agora, olympic stadium, and the temple of olympus (or the temple of zeus).

this was my favourite place in all of athens i just liked how GIANT these columns were, and its fun to try and think of how massive and impressive this place would of been in its prime

look how small i am in comparision...

that column fell over, and i felt bad for him so i named him wayne. it seemed fitting.this statue at the museum was giving me a look i didnt like...so i challenged him and he accepted. my favourite exhibit in the entire museum, only because i made the same thing senior year in pottery class, i made a piggy bank named henry EXACTLY like this! not a lie.me (with perfect form) in front of the olympic stadium about to win the gold.a view from the ferry going to the island.


our last full day in athens we decided to head out to an island that was about an hour away. originally we had planned to ferry it out to mykonos and meet up with mary but we had some problems with the hostel and realised that it was really expensive for just one night on the island. i was bummed. (sorry mary....) anyways we ferryed (can i make that verb?) out to an island called aegian ( i am pretty sure thats what it is called). anyways we get there and we headed right to the beach to sit and eat (it was lunch time and we brough picnic food). we basically hung out on the beach for the rest of the day playing in the water and being in the sun. none of us had our bathing suits though since we had originally planned to go to delphi that day, but that didnt work out. oh well we still had loads of fun.

the sun felt so good....can you tell i enjoyed myself???
wing was on the shore and told us to pose for the picture...this is the pose i went into instantly. i think that cements my coolness.courtney and i were digging our feet into the sand to see if we could find the bottom of the ocean. sadly neither of us did, we only got ourselfs really stuck in the sand and about fell over. like the poses we both had different techniques to get our feet into the sand.after playing in the sand we went to a cute restaurant on the ocean that was all white and had pretty couches for people to hang out on with tiki torches and huge fire pits. it was amazing. but basically i had about 5 euro on me total cause i didnt bring my wallet with me. ( i dont know why) and this is what 5 euro will buy you. a strawberry apple smoothie!!!

after the island we went back to the hostel to shower and change out went out to dinner for a farewell dinner to athens. it was amazing and i felt like i was gonna be full forever. the next day we had to catch a train back to patras so we could grace superfast ferrys with our beautiful selves for another 15 hour ferry ride back to bari so we could grab a train to rome. all in all greece was amazing and it smelt good and was just brilliant. i already know where i am gonna spend my honeymoon:

greece.