6/5-6/7- first weekend Athens and the beach

FIRST WEEKEND:

So the archaeology people left for Crete/Santorini midweek. Wednesday Nick/Ray came over for pasta (they didn’t have food). That Friday we had a potluck- we brought salad, liz/lili brought pasta, the guys (impressively) made chicken. We then chilled for a while and then went to Gazi. We wandered around Gazi- there are so many bars and so many people speak greek it’s a little intimidating/confusing. We went to a roof bar for a bit. It was around 2 and the clubs hadn’t started yet. We wanted to wake up early to go to the beach so we took the metro back (the metro annoying closes around 2).

friday's tanya has work off for maternity leave. So I finished what she assigned me and got off early. Went to Ionia and shopped (bought some sneaks because I really really needed them). Had fun wandering. This was also the day of the previously mentioned DJ/soccer shoot out/soccer players/air hockey. I was and am worried that I'm eating so many carbs/deserts and not really walking as much now that I know about the trolley that requires about 5 minutes of walking total.

Then Saturday it rained. It only rains 65 days per year in Greece…so it was shocking. We grabbed lunch in Kolonaki. Then we spent a lazy day at our various apartments. That night we were going to try and go out again. We knew there was a group of kids from BC in the neighboring apartment (where the boys live). So we met up at the boys apartment. We decided to say hi to the BC kids (ironically they have 9 guys 4 girls, we have 4 guys 9 girls). They were really cool and we just ended up hanging out with them till about 2:30 (some people left earlier).

Next morning we took a bus to a beach. We missed our actual stop but we found a nice beach anyway (forgot the name…it’s in greek anyway). We chilled at the beach- it was a bit cloudy but still nice. Tanned, swam, played Frisbee. Marj and I got delicious savory crepes for lunch. Then we came back to the guys’ apartment. We got pizza from Dominos (a few blocks away), converted someone’s room into a little theater, and watched Pineapple Express. It was a really chill fun weekend.

A consistent awkwardness/sadness has been that the archaeology people are traveling most weekends and have an entirely different work schedule during the week (7 am to 2 pm). Since 6 now 5 people are in archaeology it makes our group much smaller and we don’t get to hang out with them as much.