Sometimes I arrive back to our cruise ship cabin and cannot comprehend what just went down. This morning we woke up early, I thought we had to be ready to disembark into Piraeus by 7:30am, turns out it was 8:30am, oops.
Oh well. We caught a beautiful sunrise while getting ready and had a non-rushed breakfast.
At 8:30, we left the ship and met with a small group of other Auto-Owners people, jumped a bus, and headed for Athens. My oh my was traffic heavy. I swear it took us an hour to get there. Once we got to Athens, we made our way to Acropolis, the original city home to the Parthenon. The place was packed but we managed to get a few photos.
The Parthenon.
The temple.
An unobstructed view of the temple. The temple had 6 virgins on the front and an olive tree close by.
Athens from the Acropolis.
After Acropolis, we were given a city tour. For most of our time in Athens, I felt like we were in the wrong end of town. Along our tour we kept seeing these signs (the poster on the pole) and found out they were for the demonstration Athens has been having. There were police everywhere and they had riot gear!
We made our way to Plaka Square.
Where we had a nice lunch (chicken souvlaki is always a safe bet). And a coke; you can find them everywhere, they are easy to order, and seldom come in the same shaped glass bottle as the previous city. This one was square.
We shopped a bit, had some ice cream, and caught the bus back to the ship. Another nap (can’t say I’m not getting enough sleep on this trip) and then it was time for formal night (not my favorite picture but our only one from formal night). I got ready and dad and I headed to dinner. We ran into the couples we had dinner with the first night (and a few nights after) and grabbed a table. We had the exact same waiter from a few nights ago (a cute guy from Montenegro, he remembered serving us, don’t know if that is a good thing, I’m going to take it as a yes) and Auto-Owners footed the bill for drinks tonight! Our table split 4 bottles of wine and 9 beers (dad and I each only had two glasses of wine, just an fyi). An hour after dinner was the show for the night, I went by myself so dad could sleep. The show tonight was Excalibur in which a lot of river dancing occurred. I’m not sure what I think about these shows, they’re mostly very random. Tomorrow we head to Corfu. My hope is to find an amazing beach! Until then, sorry for the short post...
