This is by far the best weekend ever. We totally made up for not being able to go to Crete. First off, the weather was absolutely beautiful this weekend. The sun came out everyday and I was even able to wear shorts, t-shirt, and sandals today! Alright let's see, Saturday was a do homework kind of day and then at night we went to this place called the Ice Club where basically it's a normal club, but there's a part of the bar that's closed off and completely made of ice. They gave us thick jackets and gloves and you go in and the bar is ice, as are the chairs, cups, walls, EVERYTHING. It was amazing. We got in and it was -5 degrees celcius and we just danced around in there for half an hour. Then we went into Psiri and celebrated Carinvale with the rest of the Greeks.
On Sunday we managed to all wake up early and go down to the port in Piraeus to catch a ferry to Aegina. We got there around one and me, Jess, and Christine rented bicycles, while the boys rented motorbikes and just cruised the island. Our bikes didn't work with hills very well, so we biked along the coast to the southern tip of Aegina to a town called Perdika where we ate at a little taverna right on the water front. It was gorgeous. The sun was out, we ate outside, had some fried squid. We were definitely living the life. Then we pedaled on back to the port, met up with the other group. But that bike ride was just gorgeous. Open water out infront of us, with other islands in the distance. The sun reflecting off of the water. There were a couple people in the water picking out sea mollusks too. Then we caught the 7:30 ferry home all just completely exhausted. We probably biked about 20 kilometers yesterday, going uphill in areas too. It was the perfect day to go. We want to go again and cover the north part of the coast and maybe rent mopeds so we can make it to the Temple of Apollo :)
Today was Clean Monday and we went up to Filopapo hilltop where everyone was just flying kites. The hilltop overlooked the entire city with the coast on the other side and the Acropolis was right there too. We just hung out there for a few hours. People bought kites and tried to fly them. We got one up then someone else's line cut ours off so it flew away :( One of the guys brought a blanket so we put that on the floor and 4 of us just laid down the blanket and watched the clear blue sky with a few white clouds and kites flying in the air. It was a beautiful day. Since it's Clean Monday, people don't eat meat so we went to a restaurant for dinner and we just all ate seafood. I had some seafood pasta with gigante beans and other people had octopus pasta, shrimp, mussels, etc. It was yummy. I keep thinking that the day can't get any better and yet Greece hasn't failed to surprised me yet but upping itself with breathtaking wonders.
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