Day 2 In Athens

I love Greece!!!!!

I mean I love Italy too, but Greece is so different. Maybe because it's much busier, and people speak english...not quite sure, but I know I will be back here and I haven't even gone on the cruise yet.

This morning I set a wake up call with reception at 6:30. I hung up the phone then went back to sleep. So reception calls me 30 min later and says you didn't get up, so I'm calling again. I have no idea how he knew that I didn't get up. Maybe because there was no electricity or water going. Anyhow I got up 30 min late.....no drama I'm on holiday(I'm used to saying that instead of vacation now) I think we(Americans) are the only ones that actaully call it a vacation, everyone else calls it a holiday. Anyhow, last night I planned my day and got out my WONDERFUL map of athens and started planning. So this morning I ended up walking to the Acropolis which is about a 15min walk most of which was uphill. The Plaka dist. where I'm staying is pretty much at the bottom of the acropolis. So I ended up going in this cool back entrace where no one else was. At first I was like where am I, but I saw a ton more stuff that the people that went in the main entrance. So I was basically on the east and south side of the acropolis at that point. Then I got to the top of the acropolis with the parthenon which was awesome (Gayle...I took tons of pics of the columns) I took a lot of pics and left which was good because it started getting super busy with tours and stuff. I then walked to the Temple of Olympian Zeus which was cool, again a ton of pics of columns, thats all that is still there. Then I looked east up to the mountain and it was black clouds and these huge white clouds above them, not good. Last night we had a pretty bad storm here with thunder and the power kept going out. Good thing I took 2 advilPMs cause I kinda slept through it. Anyhow I also wanted to go to the stadium but decided not to. I hopped on the metro to come back towards the hotel area. On the way back from the metro station to my hotel I found a cool bakery, and ended up seeing Twila who also did the Italy tour with me and she is also doing the cruise. So I got a turkey sandwhich and this round chese thing...forgot the name. Then I saw the baklava, so I got a piece for dessert. Just as we got back to the hotel it started raining, so it was good timing. I ate lunch and took a little nap. Around 3 I walked back to the main metro station Syndagmatos and got off at this cute neighborhhod Monastiraki and in just a minute I'm going to walk up to the outdoor meat and seafood maket. Apperently it's a must see while in Athens. Too bad I don't have a BBQ with me I could have bought a nice piece of fish or a steak and cook it up...I'm craving american food. Then I'm going to walk around for a little while and see what else is going on.

My nose has been stuffy the past couple days so I have been trying to take it easy a little bit. I don't want to get sick next week or after that because I do have to go back to work unfortunatly. (Hi work folks)

Ok I'm off to the market I go...