Athens, Greece!

Friday, January 12, 2008
We arrived in Athens today! Although extremely tired from only 3 hours of sleep, stepping out into the warm Athens sun definitely lifted our mood! Directly across from our metro stop is the most fabulous Greek Bakery. We immediately stopped for some baklava even before finding our apartment, This put us in a very good mood indeed! We found our apartment right off (imagine that!) We're getting good at this! But there was one slight problem. We hadn't had any contact with the owner in several days and had no idea how to get a hold of her to get inside. Eventually we got a call from one of her friends but in the meantime we waited on the porch for about an hour and a half! By the time we got inside it was about 3 pm and we all felt like hitting the sack. We decided to put that on hold for a while and go get some food. So first we went out for some (yeah you guessed it) Greek food! Gyros and french fries! Okay so it's fast food but at least its ethnically accurate. And if it isn't, well sorry, I don't want to hear about it! There's a lot of little shops lining the streets around here so we grabbed a bit of food for breakfast and went back to our Greek bakery for some more local pastries. What can we say? We happen to like food! Then we went back to our apartment and crashed. It was a very exciting day.