hulllooooooooo.

sorry its been a while.. anywaysss. not much of note has happened in the past few days. just meandering more around athens, making the most of our time here before we get back on the road! right now we are staying at this girls apartment that we met in Evia. she goes to the university here in athens and she invited us to come stay so its GREAT. she has exams this week so its been me and jess pretty much still on our ownnnn.

2 days ago we spent most of the day walking around random neighborhoods that our guide book insisted would be extremely fascinating and trying to find some interesting shops to look at but our guide book lied and everything was closed cause of some national holiday so we figured we minus well do as the greeks do and find a coffee shop to sit at for 3 hours. haha so we trekked over to the fancy part of town where all the little outdoor cafes are and ordered some Freddoccinos (our favorite!!). We then attempted to drink them the way our friends in Evia taught us- very slowlyyyyyyyyyyyy. like one sip every ten minutes. when we used to get coffee with george we would try painfully hard to make them last and when we were done we would look at his drink and see that only 1/3 of it was finished. fail. so anyway as we were sitting there an old fancy man named Pierre started talking to us and telling us how he was a journalist in France and sails around the world in his boat. he then started feeding all the pidgeons and asking us if we were familiar with the elusive white headed pidgeon. we talked to him for atleast 45 minutes and a majority of the time we had no idea what he was talking about which then led jessica and i to break out in a fit of laughter for 10 minutes why Pierre looked as us a tad confused. he then told us that the people in France would be more interested if he wrote an article about the two beautiful girls he met at the cafe than if he wrote about the Greek national elections that happened two days ago. Ohhh Pierre.

that night we went to Monastiraki, the main tourist square, and decided to be classy and go sit at a bar. we ordered drinks and the bartender ended up giving us free shots since we are poor backpackers. it was a succcesss. we walked around a bit and i found my old friend Axtan Beto!!! he was the dreaded hippie guy from mexico selling jewelry who i met in Athens two weeks ago. so we spent half hour catching up in spanish and telling him about our adventures the past two weeks hahha.

umm and then yesterday ana and her friend took us to the beach in athens!! the water was soooo clear and beautiful and refreshing.. it was great. also it was so salty that we were able to float without treading.. legitttt. oh and we also saw our first nude beach-goers hahhah.. it was kind of awkward and their guy friend was filming them too sooo yea i dont even know. hhhha but we tanned all day and as the sun was going down we caught the tram back to town. ana had to study for exams last night so jess and i just went out by ourselves again. we meandered back over to monastiraki, got hair wraps!!! (finally!), creeped by athens backpackers to see if we could see anyone we knew (we are like hostel rats) , and finally decided that instead of a bar crawl we could save money by just going on a "convenient store" crawl. succccesss. after hitting three kiosks we ran into someone with a CU shirt on (go buffs!), talked to him for a bit, and finished the night with crepes and gelato. overall it was a fun night.

today we plan on exploring the area of athens called Exarhia which is apparently like New York City's Soho. everyone said its pretty bohemian and alternative and the anarchists live there. hahaha. and we are probably going to get ferry tickets today too cause we are LEAVING FOR CRETE TOMORROW!!! wahoooooooooo.

anyways, hope all is well in the US!!! 3 more weeks in this beautiful country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




PS: George Kanasaros!!!! I know you are following my blog haha. WE MISS YOU GUYS SO MUCH. tell everyone at food break that we looove them and everyday we are tempted to hop down on the bus to visit. oh and the crepe i got last night wasnt nearly as good as yours.