Malakas and vismas

We made a delicious meal again in Greece- really Joanna did. We had spaghetti with homemade sauce, these potatoes with bacon and cheese baked in the oven and then a Greek sweet roll type deal for dessert. So delicious. We rested and read (mel and I have gone through 3 books each while in Greece- none less then 500pages) then got ready to meet stelios' friend Akis out for coffee at a cafeteria. Akis was super outgoing and a lot of fun. We grabbed sandwiches after at a really great place called everest where you build your own panini. Akis outdid us all by packing a mixture of bacon, turkey, meat patty, hot dog, egg, ketchup, mayo and who knows what else into one. We weren't even mad; it was amazing. 

Ps- the Indian man who yelled at us? Well turns out he's Greek. Just an odd English accent I suppose. Stelios and Joanna got a kick out of us thinking that and called him 'the indian' for the res of our stay. Also another side note was our gas station fiasco which happened the othe night which we forgot to mention where a man drove away next to us with the pump still in resulting in major honking, yelling and all around mayhem as the hose popped out of his car into the air to the ground. The owner of the station flipped on the as pumper lady (Greece is full service gas) and a clean up crew had to come out. And interesting gas stop for sure. 

We got up this morning, packed up and headed to kifissia with stelios to catch our bus to the airport. My mom had text updated me that the phillies had lost again causing me to be in a slightly off color mood. I better be able to watch at least ONE game of the series. Hopefully when we are in venice. 

And so our day adventure began. We boarded our bus to the airport around noon and rode for 40mins there. We hung out at the airport for 2 hours before boarding... A super cool ozzy osbourne slash white snake wannbe kid sporting bleached white curly hair, aviators, a bright purple sparkley shirt was part of our in gate entertainment due to his wardrobe and fashion choices. I tried to take a top secret picture of him on my phone which I will put on facebook but I don't think it does him justice. 

We got on our plane in a big cluster- by got on our plane I mean stood with a giant group of ppl trying to pack on to the bus that drove us to our plane. All was fine once we boarded and the attendents told us to listen for the 'Brace Brace!' shout in case of emergency. We get a kick out of that safety call haha. We flew for 2.5hrs and on our descent ran into a thunderstorm causing the whole plane to drop, be severely thrown left and right and pretty much try to do everything it could not to fall out of the sky. It was enough that Melanie and I had to 'brace' ourselves on the seat in front of us so we wouldn't be thrown around into each other. We decided it was like space mountain at Disney world but not so dark. Melanie also asked me if they have duty free guns because we were both about to kill ourselves with all the shenanigans. She asked me why we are all so much smarter than everyone aka they cant figure out lines, metal detectors, they are rude and pushy and many other examples of complete idiotic behavior... I said, isnt it obvious, we are smarter because we are Americans haha.  This outlook may or may not explain why foreigners arent the biggest fans ofour country, whoops :)

We landed and everyone clapped because they were still alive and we boarded another bus to the luggage claim. And then bought tickets to an hour long bus ride to the train station in Milan. We had to fight our way on to the bus so we wouldn't miss our train to Venice. Melanie sat next to a nosey man who kept trying to read her text messages and played an obnoxious game on his phone. I sat next to what a want to call an Italian mafia  man who I swore had a mugshot of a beat up American woman as his background of his phone. I tried to avoid contact as to not become 'next'. Upon arriving at the train station we knew we had to get on the eurostar to make sure we got to Venice in time for our hostel reservation. We had 15mins before it left and had to book our seats first. Savvy travelers that we are, we made it aboard and now are embarking on a 3hr ride to Venice where we will then take the metro to the hostel. This will add up to 8hrs pf travel including 2 buses, one train and a metro. All in a days work. 

Note: Greece doesn't know what limes are. Stelios said, you mean unripe lemons? When we asked... our coronas were served with lemons instead as well.... I also managed a lovely laundry feat of dying my white shirt a lovely baby blue and my cream sweater a splendid seafoam... Our standards for cleanliness how dropped dramatically since Greece was only our second time doing laundry in a month... We miss taco bell and are both planning on requesting our rides home in the states to stop for crunchwrap supremes... We also miss the Greek cops... But not smelling like smoke after being inside everywhere (waitresses chain smoke while serving you)... The Asians sitting next to us on the train right now are blatently reading melanie's paper she is writing on (how do you say piss off in Chinese?)... We are about to be freezing for the rest of our trip, it's 9C right now and this will be our southern most spot. 

*trains are MUCH easier then airplanes, we prefer them- my corkscrew got taken away from me today, sniff :o( *