ok after i finished typing my last blog i walked back up stairs to the lobby area and saw matt sitting there! he was just hanging out by him self self so i sat down to see what he was up to! he said he was heading up the the giant hill with emily, her friend, anna, and tom! i had already hiked up that giant hill that day and around most of athens, but they talked me into going agian so i did! what ever its good excersize! so i waited with matt till the others were ready, and it wasnt long before they all came down! we headed off and planned to stop by a supermarket before going up the hill because they wanted to have like a picnic type deal and watch the sun set! but that didnt happen because we just kept walking and we got caught up in talking, crazy illigal sales men, and busy streets of athens! but what ever i said lets just eat when we get back down, and everyone thought that would be ok!
so i showed them the way to the top and its a little bit of a trek from the hostel and pretty much all up hill! when we got to the hill it was fun going up with a big group! we saw more turtles in the middle of a giant mountian ha ha! and when we got to the top it was beuatifle, even the second time for me! athens is such a dense city with soooo much to see!
we were at the top of the hill for about an hour just having a good time eating some strawberries anna had and chatting away! emily and here friend wanted to stay till sun set, which was fine but it was like an hour and a half away.. so i kinda made it clear that i wasnt gonna stay and ended up walking back with anna, tom and matt!
whenwe winded our way back thru the streets to our hostel we ended up going to get a greek salad! we all had to try a greek saled in greece, makes since to me! i asked for chicken in my greek salad and he looked at me wierd so i took it just the way the make it! ha ha which is very good, i was basically chunks of fresh tomato, cumcuber, some strange olives, feta cheese, some oil and idk... but it was very good!
we sat out side and seriously about every three minutes a new person would come by and try and sell you something! lol its halarious, all of a sudden you table will light up with green laser lights every where and you up to a guy holding 30 laser lights and a mega phone! its soo funny the he talked into the megaphone, " 5 euro nice lights, i give you for three, try try.. ha ha"
i have fun with it! but in greece its not as fun cause if you lead them on they will not let it be... i tried on some glasses and that was the biggest mistake of my life ha ha i had to eventually grab a waiter to get this guy away from the table..
you get little kids selling tissues, its just unreal, and kinda sad at the same time... these kids are like eight! but eventually we just continued a conversation and just flat out ignored them, but i could i was laughing so hard ha ha!
you'll walk by some one and there just step in front of you and open a bag, DVD? ha ha no thanks man!
any ways it was something ive bever expierenced while eating dinner at a restraunt, so it was cool, i thought! im sure the locals hate it!
we left dinner at about 8:30 which is about a half an hour into happy hour.. happy hour only goes for an hour and our hostel had the cheapest beer in athens! 3 euros a pint, and by one get one free during happy hour!!
so we had our fair share of beers because i had one more night but left early in the morning so i wanted to have a good last night drinking! and i did! the sky bar is so coool! everybody talks with every one, keili the bar tender is super cool, and its just a good time, every one clicks! when the bar closed at mid night, anna, matt, russ, and i went out to get a euros which is like a greek version of the kebab! its good but a bit salty.. after that i saw a stray dog in the squar and sat next to it, and started petting it! with a good buzz i didnt think about it having rabies or randomly deciding to attack me! ha ha but it was nice and im pretty sure he probably doesnt get the attention i gave him hardley ever! he did snap at me but that was because a guy cam up with his crazy green light disco laser and i yelled at him, cause he kept doing it and he was freaking me and especially the dog out! matt asked for my camera when i started petting the dog and i didnt realize how many pictures he took till the morning! lol i woke and looked at my pics which is always fun! and i just started laughing! i had like thirty pictures of me and this dog! but there are some cool pics! :)
after my hands where black and i probably had fleesi decided id had enough of the dog, so we headed back! but it was a fun night!
in the morning i took a nice long shower and when down for some breakfast! i had breakfast and talked to every one that was down there! matt, anna, and i ended up going to the beach!we thought it would be a lot easier than it was but, things slightly changed... ha ha we hopped on the the green metro line that takes you all the way to the ocean side to the ports and we were hoping to find a nice beach around there, but we didnt even make it to the ports, because the metro line was under construction and we had to get off about three stops early..
we asked the lady at the station and she said it wouldnt be bad to walk at all! which i thought was shurly the case because tiffany walked to the ports from the hostel in an hour and a half. but after about ten minutes of walking we asked a couple and they made it sound like your wasting you time to walk....
anna had to meet a friend at the airport soon any way so we ended up hopping in a taxi and aggreeing on the price of eight euros, after a little bit of numbers going up and down ha ha! but the driver was cool he spoke no english just numbers, we were in the taxi for all of ten minutes and then got on the highway... im going uhhh? what beach are we going to? we all started joking about where we were going and he gave us the hand signal like dont worry! ha ha
he did end up taking us to a nice beach! and it was fun! nobody was gonna swim cause it was a little windy, but there were a few people in, and i knew i might ni be back to the beach! so with no warning i got a running start and made my way into the beautifle ocean! its been awhile since ive been in an ocean it was nice! i talked matt and anna into getting in! and we swam for about twentie minutes hung out for a bit and then had to get back.
getting back was easy and should have been the way we got there! ha ha it was a tram that took us all they way back! people were looking at me strange cause i was bare foot with sandy feet and still pretty wet! but what do ya do.. oh yea bring a towl and a change of clothes ha ha?
when we got back i went and hung out with the pigeons! ha ha and idea i got from some guy that put bird seed in my hand and tried to charge me five euro to take a picture when bird landed on me.. so i decided to do it my self! you guys are probably like wow... really.. so were the people watching in the sqaure! lol but it called for some cool pics! :)
then i headed back, showered and met kate in the lobby cause she talked about making matt and i some pasta because we cooked her a home made pizza! matt was talking a nap so i went to the store with kate and got some vegies and a few things we needed!
i helped her a little bit but she pretty much had it under control! when dinner was ready, i went up to matts room and pounded on the door! we headed back down and enjoyed a very nice pasta with garlic bread! it ended up being about five us us eating! it was cool!
after dinner the boys did the dishes, cause we pretty much did nothing else! ha ha people were taking pictures of us as if guys never wash a dish.. and by the time we got things cleaned up it was about to see what was going on in the sky bar! i didnt want to drink a lot because we had a plan to meet in the lobby at 7 am to catch a train to meteora! it turned into a group of five that were headed up there so i was looking forward to it!
any way just like everyother night you say your not drinking... you drink! so i had two happy hour beer which equals four beers! and got to talking to this lady that i met in the lobby from hamburg cause i let her use my cheap charger! we talked for a while about a bunch of random stuff, her name was kristen and shes thirty! a very nice lady! i ended giving her my charger because.. well i dont know why.. she was headed to the islands and i figured i could grab another one easily, she was so excited and what ever, but if i ever make it back to hamburg i for sure have a place to stay!
any ways i had my eye on this latino girl from mexico since the morning at breakfast ha ha! we were kinda being flirty flirty, and i was givin her a bit of a hard time! it was fun! out of the middle of know where matt calls me over cause she was talking to matt about me, and we got to talking!
long story short this girl was super cool! cool enough for me to stay out till 3 am whatching the changing of the guards which happens every hour and isnt like the most exciting thing in the world ha ha..
but somethin about her idk! it was exited about leaving in the morning untill this point ha ha! but it was fun, and i hope to see her agian one day, who knows!
the next morning i was up early and heading down to the lobby for a coffee! matt, and the other three kids that were headed to meteora were in the lobby already! the other three were worried about catching the train so they left, but i had my coffee and matt and i made our way to the train station! matts funny, hes still a little confused just like i was on day 17, i tought hime the metro and how to make your way to a place! he'll get it just like i did! but any ways we got there with plenty of time left, and i had one more coffee when we met up as a group!
the train ride was about five hours and wasnt to bad, considering i was a little ehhhh... but i slept for about an hour and we got there around one!
leonared, micheal, and allen were staying in a different hostel, cause matt and i booked ours before. we stayed in a two twin bed privat room which is you only option in a small town like this... but its a nice place and wasnt to expensive! breakfast was good in the mornings and i cant complain!
the first day was pretty mellow we wall to one little monestary, and got some food from the store and called it an early night for the big day ahead of us!
in the morning we got up aroun nine! i felt like a new person!!
i emptied my back pack and we packed sandwhiches, fruit and water!! we hiked almost all day around these cliffs! there flast out amazing! there mind blowing! theses monestarys are built on top of giant giant giant rocks! it un real!
about this time i was wondering why the hell i gave my charger away.... matt was cool and let me snap some shots with his camera using my sim, but still it was a bit of a hassle and not the same as having a fully chargesd camera in your pocket..
the only charger i could find was 30 euros... i got the last one for five.. i almoste broke down and got it but i have to crack down now.. the funds are gettin tight!
we ended up seeing leonard and his friends at the grand monestary, and they were headed back the direction we came, after we chatted for a bit mat and i headed in to the monestary with there tickets ha ha it worked!
we were wearing shorts and some people didnt like that.. we almost didnt get in to them.. which i dont understand at all but what ever!
i even stayed out side of one cause i dont need to see the inside of all of these for two euros a pop.. ive seen many churses and was enjoying the oustide veiw!! its just crazy!
after we saw the grand monstary we ended up heading back the direction we came and ran back into leonard and his friends ha ha! so we walked down with themto the small town they stayed in next to ours called kasatraki! we had some dinner with them but only got bread and dip because we had more food left!
matt and i walked back to our hostel and just sat on our patio and relaxed for a little bit! we walked alot!!!
when it got later we walked down to the train station then up to the super market and hit a souvener shop on the way back! we got to chatting to the hotel host and another ladie that works here and there very nice people! then it was bout eleven so it was time to get organized and get some sleep for the next day, cause we both had early trains to catch!
matt was going back to athens to head to the iasland with leonard and them, and im headed to thessolonki in north eastern greece so i can eventually get to istanbul!!
when i was packing and organizing i realized the worst thing possible had happend.... my camera....
yep i didnt have it... i was freaking out.. i went thru everything and it wasnt there... matts like weel it will come up in the morning..
NO, HELL NO!! im not gonna sleep untill i find that camera, but i didnt.. i really didnt sleep good at all, and when i woke up matt was gone, and i really didnt care about catching my train.. i cared about finding my camera!
in the morning i walked down to the super market hoping it was there, but it was closed.. so i walked to the train station where the people are very un friendly.. and it wasnt there.. but i some how talked them into canging my ticket to tomorrw with out paying for a new one! that wasnt easy...
i went back to the super market but it didnt open for ten more minutes.. so i waited, they didnt have anything and were not very pleasent or helpfull at all..
then.. i walked all the way back to kasastraki which is the next small town over and went to the place i had dinner with every one.. not there... that was the last place i know for sure i had it.
i was walking back and didnt feel like walking so i put my thumb out and got picked up by the secong car that past! it was and old man, and spoke a little english, he talked about his time he spent in america! it was a quick ride to the souvenier shop which is a little bit past my hostel, and that was still closed, so i was just feeling like shit! so many cool pics a digital camera... and it just was the worst day and this was the last thing i ever wanted to happen....
at this point i walked slowley and aimlessly back to the hostel and got on face book messaging everbody i had hung out with to send me somepics for my dvd... it wouldnt be the same, but better thaen nothing of vienna, munich, zurich, and all of GREECE...
i wrote some postcards and headed back to town to send them and see if the souvenier shop was open, and it wasnt.. but right when i turned around a guy pulled up in a truck and parked, it was the guy working the shop! this was my last shot at getting my camera..
i asked him about it and he new nothing... my stomach dropped and i just had the worst feeling ever....
then i turned aound, and out the other the corner of my eye i saw my camera sitting up on these costers by all the post cards, i freaked out! like seriously after being miserable and trippin since the night before i was going crazy! the guy was like oh bravo, bravo!!! i was just estatic, i cant explain the feeling!
i even wrothe on a postcard to my family about loosing my camera, ha ha but thats a false alarm!!!
i walked back to the hostel just yelling out like is good!!! and its because i gave that lady my charger! :) i love carma!
so i came back booked another night here in this nice little town and, and will be out of here tomorrow! im gonna wait till i get to thessolonki to find a charger, because i know i can do better than 30 euros.. but i wish i could take more pics today.. but i dont care im just happy to have my camera!!
so that was today! the worst day, turned into the best day!!!!!
that brings me to now! im just gonna chill untill my train tomorrow and hopefully be to istanbul in a day or so!
im thinkin about spending about a month in turkey and flying out of istanbul!
i gotta get back to see every one!! and save for burning man! ha ha
miss you guys!
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