Second Day in Athens

We woke up and everyone was excited to go see the Acropolis and other sites. We checked out of the main hostel and stored our stuff there because we decided to upgrade to a flat for only a few Euro more. We went to the Acropolis again and it was crazy packed, the day was a little overcast so it wasn't quite as cool as the day before. We saw everything again and had lunch at the same cafe I had eaten at the day before. After exploring the city some more we tried to figure out what we were going to do for the next few days, because we wanted to head to the Islands. Since Jess and Heather, who wasn't even here yet had to leave soon we decided that we would stay at the close islands and not head out to Santorini which is very far away. We went to a travel agent and he was a jerk so we looked around for more. The lady at the tourist information site was awesome so she convinced us to go to Poros, Hydra, and Egina. We went and booked our stay with a guy that was also awesome and knew people on every island and got us some great deals. We got a ferry over and a hotel to stay at for the night for only 35 Euro. We decided that we had had enough of eating out so we were going to cook that night in our flat. We went and picked up a bunch of supplies and made a good pasta dish and had local wine with it. I also found a new drink that I enjoy that I think is Greek, it might not be but I haven't seen it in the states. It's called Gordon's Space and it tastes like Mike's Hard Lemonade. After dinner we went to our old hostel for a while and then our bartender took us to another place where he knew the people. It was pretty far away so we took cabs. Our cabdriver was awesome and I asked him a ton of questions about Greek. He explained the Greek-Turkey rivalry, why all British people are the thieves of history, and the belief system of the Greek Orthodox, so it was a good ride. We got to the bar, and the next day was Oz's birthday, so we bought him drinks. I met some really cool girls from Latvia and we talked a lot about American music and life in Latvia, which, thanks to playing dumb games on the internt, I knew where it was, so I made a good first impression. They did not know where Minnesota was so I was a little mad. When we left the bar, we decided we didn't want to take a cab and we were going to walk. It was fun, but it took a long time because we were probably four miles away. It's a good thing that you can see the Acropolis from everywhere so we just followed it, much like moths going to a light, which I'm sure is what we looked like. We walked back with some girls from Austria, and we talked about school in each place and tons of other things. It is awesome to here so many different perspectives on living from people my age. We got back to the hotel at like 3:30AM and we realized that we had to wake up in like 4 hours because we had to get to the port to catch a ferry. We got to bed quickly.