Hence the title, today was filled with lots of walking and lots of sweating! Its HOT here!!!!
So when we first skyped Ruth, we asked her what the weather was like and what clothes we should bring, and she said "wear as little as possible!!" We laughed at the time, but goodness gracious - she wasn't joking. Holy crap it is hot here. I think we drank all the water today to replace the sweat we lost while walking!!!
We started out today on a train ride. We were told by someone who lived her that Polyvsetos has the best gyros and so we decided to check them out. On the way there, we passed the metro station that goes by the Olympic Stadium that they used in 2004 and that was pretty cool to see. We didn't go there because based on reading, its all abandoned and not kept up, so there isn't much to see. When we got off the train station, this gyro place was really hard to find! We walked in circles, more circles, asked someone, asked another person and finally found it! The gyros were good, but we actually liked the first place we found better. This shop did have better french fries on them though, so that counts. At least we tried it out.
Then we went on a LONG train ride to the other side of town (literally) to the port with all the ferries to the islands. We wanted to schedule and 3 island tour that people have said is awesome and totally worth it. We went down there yesterday to see the options and how much it cost and the agency said each person was 60 euros - not bad for a full day excursion. So we went back today to buy our tickets, we went to the closest agency (thinking they were the same), they had the same brochure for the trip we wanted and so we went up to the counter. 89 euros each. Wait, what? So we go down to the one we went to yesterday - its the exact same trip, same boat, same departure time and island tour and its only 60. The other travel agency was just charging more. Ha! 60 euros we paid, so much better than 89 each.
On the way back, we had seen a baby store many times in the passing and I made Brian stop so that we could find a onezie! Well, the walk there turned out to be a bit more interesting than we bargined for...we look to our left, and on the other side of the street, there is a naked man screaming random things in Greek. He keeps squatting down to do only God knows what and keeps yelling. We are laughing histerically and keep walking. We make it to the baby store and we find onzies! We find a cute pack of two and now Nemo has its first item of clothing! We head back to the train and our friendly, neighborhood naked man is still doing the same thing. We continue to laugh and get back on the train. Well at least it was an interesting stop for sure.
Next we headed to the Acient Agora, back in the day, it was the main shopping, visiting, offices place to go in Athens. Now its a ton of ruins, a temple, and a museum. It was actually pretty cool to explore and look around. The temple was awesome because it was pretty much in tact after all this time. We did kinda get lost of the way to the Ancient Agora and found the Roman Agora which was the replacement for the Ancient Agora. So we saw it in backwards order, but that's normal for us. :)
We were going to try to make it to the War Museum, but that didn't happen. We need to wake up earlier and get into town earlier...but we like sleep. :) Maybe tomorrow. We did decide we wanted to hit up the Running Man statue and so we went and found it! Took some pictures of it and then headed back to the station. We stopped in at the bakery and picked up some ice cream. It was delicious and probably the best waffle cone I've ever had. Then it was time to come home. The taxi driver got lost again, but its a good thing Brian and I are recognizing where to turn because apparently the road the house is on "doesn't exist" in GPS. Oh well, we've made it home every time!
We cooled off (trust me, we needed a cooling off period!) and then Brian cooked dinner. Time for some relaxing and TV before we start all over again tomorrow. Brian is currently planning out the rest of our days because even though we have a week left, we want to make sure to hit everything that we wanted to before it's time to come home!
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