Greece Day 4

Well. It happened. We missed a trip. It left at 7:45, and we didn’t get around to waking up till 9 or so. James did, he called to say we were out of luck and we decided to just go back to sleep. Which we did, till 1pm. Ah…ya. Pretty disappointing actually. We were supposed to go to Delphi, which is like 4 hour bus ride away and then see some ancient ruins. If you’ve ever read Percy Jackson, Delphi would be exciting for you, and I was stoked. But…it happens. And this was the first one out of many trips that we’ve done.
After the obviously much needed sleep, we headed off for town. We took the 25 minute walk and the metro down to Montasiriki (or however you spell it), and then headed to Plaka again! I wore my Birks out, and they were super comfy, so I was stoked. We ate this AMAZING gyro from a little restaurant that you order to go from. The gyro was only 1.80 and a soda was 1.10. The gyro was HUGE and the best freaking thing I’ve had in Greece yet. They just throw it together really quickly too, which is kinda funny, but man, what an awesome lunch.
After our little sit down, we headed down one of the streets we hadn’t seen yet. We ended up at a Grecian Nike store! We looked around for a bit and I ended up buying a dude type jersey thing. I guess that Nike has a certain type of material called “Dry Fit” and the US soccer team used it for their jersey because it’s very breathable. Well. I’m going to Turkey and to Egypt, and I NEED something breathable, and it fit. So…I bought a dude thing.
Next we went to H&M, which I usually don’t like. There was some CRAZY sale though, and I ended up buying another two pants and a shirt. Hahahaha. Ya. Typical me. Spending more money. I’m happy with them though, I think that they’ll be perfect for where we’re going. Linen like material, and very light.
So next we went on a crazy adventure to the OTHER side of Athens. We took 13 subway stops so we could see the Athens mall and the swimming part of the Olympic stadium (the Olympics were in 2000 or 2004 we think). The thing was, it took 45 minutes for the subway stops, and the subway was down for one of them, so we had to get ferried by bus for the last stop. Lol. The mall is awesome though. It’s a marvel of architecture I guess and it’s changed the way that Greeks look at malls. It’s like 4 stories high, and there’s an awesome looking theater on top. We wanted (I wanted) to see Eclipse and it was playing there, but we told our friends we’d meet them at 8:30, so we had to go back home! It stunk SOOO bad! We ended up being late too because we weren’t positive on the whole bus situation and we got set back a couple of minutes anyway.
We eventually made it back to the boat though, and we ended up going out with Shelby/James and Lauren/Garrett. We went back to Plaka and had another really cheap gyro. Then we went to a little bar place and had a rooftop view of the Acropolis while we ate some icecream and drank a soda. It was pretty nice. We were there for awhile just hanging out. We like the double/triple dates. They’re pretty fun. ☺
So we decided around one to head on home back to the boat. Unfortunately, the subway was down an hour earlier than it was supposed to be, and we weren’t sure how we were going to get home. Luckily, we met up with a SAS trip including a few students and like 8 teachers, one of them being from Athens. SO! We went some crazy way home on a metro that was like 5 flights downstairs and then a bus ride that was super packed. We started at one and we ended up home at 230 or so. It was an adventure, to say the least. Lol.