HELLOOOOOO

Ahhh so going off of my last blog. We did end up going up that hill that I was talking about and the view was unreal. The actual hike up there was pretty brutal. It was like 2 in the afternoon so the sun was still strong, and we were tired due to lack of sleep, this resulted in dramatic noises, and phrases like "WHY GOD am i doing this??" haha after walking up stone step after stone step after stone step we finally managed to make it to the top. Luckily it was worth the sweat because at the top you could see the entire sprawling city of Athens. The view went as far out as the ocean and the city limits looked endless. While we were up there we also had a friendly conversation with a flight attendant lady from canada! haha random I know. after that we were exhausted and ended up coming back to the hostel where we relentlessly annoyed the hostel staff. We were both so tired that instead of joining the festivities on the roof top bar we decided to go down to where the couches were and played cards. There we befriended a fellow backpacker. He was really nice, and he had just finished his graduate degree from Notre Dame. Well we all got to talking and we decided that it was necessary that we find a pool (because the days here in athens have been notoriously HOT). So Chelsea and I and our new friend went in search for a fancy hotel. We managed to find one and successfully sneak into their pool for a quick dip! haha after that we decided to show our friend (Brian) around because he had just arrived that night and was leaving the next day for an island. We walked around Plaka and then went up to the acropolis at night. It was such a nice laid back evening! P.S. Athens Backpackers hostel let us sleep on the couches for free haha.

The next day we decided to hop around on the metro only to find ourselves lost and confused. IT is soooo extremely HOT here that we decided the best option of the day would be to go get coffee like all the locals do. So we found a fancy outdoor venue and drank our freddochinos as slow as possible (for some reason all the greeks take like hours to drink coffee). There we befriended a friendly character named Pierre. This Pierre fellow was straight out of a book. He was an older man maybe in his mid 60's and from what I understood he was french but has been on assignment as a journalist in Greece for the past two years. Most of the time I couldn't understand what he was telling us because he mumbled a lot haha. Anyways he was this classy guy who was just sitting alone at a table near us, and every once in a while he would stare down the pigeons near by and try and feed them crumbs from his hand. HAHA not joking he could have been a leading character in some fancy french movie. Before he left he stopped by our table (they were really close to eachother) and left us his business card and told us to call him if we wanted to meet up for coffee.) His business card was this snazzy little peice that had his two initials and his last name on one side with Journaliste written under it in scrawling letters. The back had his number haha ahh this was so random. But don't worry parents we have no intentions of meeting up so don't freak!

After this little expedition we headed back to our hostel to grab our things and head to Ana's. Ana is this very nice girl that we befriended on the island of Evia. She goes to University in Athens and happens to live quite close to our hostel. Anyways she has exams this week so me and chelsea have pretty much been on our own. This works out fine for us, we are just happy to have a place to stay!! So after arriving at her place we ended up going out ot Monastiraki and headed to a bar, because we can here!!! haha We felt all snazzy sitting at a bar ordering a beer haha. After that we walked around and headed back for the night.

The next day I woke up early and decided to go get coffee and go read in the National gardens. Then I met up with Chelsea and Anna and her other friend and we all went to the beach!! The beach was kind of weird but it felt sooo good to be in the water, because the heat here is like death!!! After the beach we came back showered up and went in to monastiraki and got hair wraps!!!! Then we decided to do our own version of the pub crawl and instead went on a convenience store crawl. This consisted of us going up to several convenience stores and buying a beer haha. Along the way we met someone who just graduated from CU!! That was the weirdest coincidence haha. He was really cool though and he told us we were very boulder haha. Our night ended with a nice scoop of gelato and then sleep!!!

Today we are going to go into Exarhia which is supposedly where all the alternative/anarchist people live! haha YES

Tomorrow we leave for Crete, so wish us luck!!!

CIAO