Saturday, July 08, 2006

It feels like we have been gone for days even though we only left this morning; the roomies and I just got back from our day trip to Aegina, the closest island to Athens.  I love the fact that we can leave our apartment in the middle of the city and within two hours be on the beach of a tiny island in the middle of the Aegean. 

We had originally planned to go to Spetses for the day, but due to budgetary reasons we decided on Aegina instead.  The whole day cost less than 20 Euro; both boat tickets cost 11 euro, bus tickets to and from the beach cost 2.20, and we spent 2.75 on a taxi to and from a church that Maren wanted to go see in the middle of the island, and dinner cost 5 euro at a restaurant near the port.  It was a really relaxing day, but so far Aegina is my least favorite place we've been.  It was great to get out of the city and spend the day on the beach, but the island just wasn't as pretty as other places we have been/looked into. 

I'm hoping to get to Spetses one day this week, I may miss class on Wednesday and take another day trip since this is our last week and everyone else gets done with their classes on Tuesday. 

Yesterday was a lazy day, although we got a lot accomplished.  Thursday night, we got bored so we decided to watch all of Grey's Anatomy season 1 on my laptop since I brought my dvds with me and didn't get finished until almost 4 am.  Mike had passed out on the floor of our living room because he thought the show was stupid, so we woke him up and sent him home before going to bed.  We slept until almost 1 in the afternoon yesterday, and then got up to go out to the Olympic Complex at Irini.  Mike hung out with us for most of the afternoon because his whole apartment went camping on Paros this weekend.  We crashed back at the apartment for the evening and ended up having a McDonalds-fest and playing on our computers for the rest of the night.

Tomorrow we are planning a day trip down the coast to Sounio to see the Temple of Poseidon and hang out at the beach.  I'm rather excited because we missed the Temple last year and it is one of the highlights of Greece. 

For now, we are going to shower and have the last box of Kraft macaroni for dinner and possibly go see a movie at the rooftop theatre.

Kali Spera.

~RLM

GotD: Ena isitrio gia (Aegina) parakalo. - One ticket to (Egina) please.

*edit* 1:24 am

P.S. The Lake House is officially one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen.  Definitely not worth the 7 euro we just payed to watch it, although the rooftop theatre almost makes up for the lack of plot/interesting dialogue/good acting. 

Just needed a little rant for the evening, now I'm off to bed.

Kali Nichta. ~RLM