I am too lazy to upload pics at the moment but I'll write a bare minimal recap and add pics tomorrow or something.
We got to Athens at 9:44 last night, Athens time. That's losing an hour German time. So we didn't have to go through customs then caught what was supposed to be an hour long bus ride to the city center but EVERYTHING WAS WRITTEN IN GREEK. Everyone said that everything would be in Greek AND English alphabets but nope. All the signs on stores and on the buses were in Greek. So how were we supposed to know our stop?
Luckily it was the last stop because my plan was to go by how long Google said the bus ride would be and then I'd press the stop button, but we got there early so the bus driver just made everyone get off then. And then the hotel was right behind the bus stop, so woo!
That was the last good thing from 11:15 to 6 a.m., because as soon as we got in the room, I saw a massive cockroach in the bathroom and I had on sandals so my mom had to try and kill it and she missed it and it got away and OHHHHH MYYYYY GOOOOSH, I did not realize I was scared of massive cockroaches with inch-long feelers till one got away in the bathroom. There was a hole under the toilet he escaped in.
So I spent the next hour being terrified and coming up with coping mechanisms. Y'all, my cockroach fear is REAL. My final game plan was to spray my insect repellant around the toilet and hole behind the toilet, leave he bathroom light on all night because what cockroach comes out in the light?! -- and finally, sleep with my sneakers on the night stand for if I had to pee. Once I had that settled I was good.
I slept from like 2 to 6, then we got up for breakfast. Breakfast was coffee and toast and an egg and it was good and I was ready to go but then my mom wanted to do a walking tour and at the first stop of the walking tour I realized I drank too much water with my coffee and I had to PEEEE.
Peeing in Europe is such a hassle. We went back to the hotel because it wasn't far, and THEN we were off. We saw...uh...let's see if I know all we saw: Temple of Zeus? Hadrian's Arch? The Roman Agora, the Ancient Agora, the Acropolis (these I know!), the Plaka, and then original Olympic stadium. I used my GPS watch to track everything but the Olympic stadium because it was a separate trip and it was like 7 miles, on slipper marble, so that might be why I am sore, I dunno.
Oh, and I did a lap around the Olympic track in flip flops because that's what cool people do.
And now I plan to read random crap on the Internet till I pass out because I am on 4 hours of sleep (more than Peru!) and I have to drive all over the Peloponnese tomorrow.
There are probably a lot of typos here because I am typing in my iPad and it can never tell what I mean when I misspell things.
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