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I'm back "home" after a week long trip to Greece and a few if it's cycladic islands.  I traveled with three other americans and we had a ball!  We flew from Cairo to Larnaca (cyprus) and had an obscene layover from like 10 -  8 am.  We decided to find a bar and chill but ended up just looking at the stars and avoiding random sketchies.  btw, I have never seen the stars so clear.

We landed in athens with NO plan...no hostel no nothing! yes, double negatives.  Anywho the people were super friendly and we ended up taking a bus to syntagama (city center in athens) then we kind of meandered our way through the streets till we got to hotel zeus.  14 euro a night per person. :)

Over a period of two days we visited

The Acropolis
The Parthenon
The Archeological Museum

The Acropolis museum
The market
The temple of Zeus

We left athens for Paros (cycladic island) on a blue star ferry.  I hate ferries...except i totally forgot i hated them until i got on the one for paros.  We watched the sunset but it was hella cold (tee jee) and the ferry was bobbing everywhere/we didnt have legit seats.

After a brief stop in syros we got to Paros at like 11pm and preceeded to walk along the water till we found our hostel.  Beaucause i am the luckiest person in the world, the hostel we wanted was closed...so we chose to walk around a bit....on empty streets.

We found this place called hotel john and I became "that girl".  You know, the stupid one that goes into the basement to see what the knocking was in the middle of the night.  That was me.  There was no one at the desk but there was a sign that said...go upstairs to the left....and I did.  Except, upstairs to the left there was some insanely dark door.....

So, I crept back down the stairs and whispered to the girls, 'theres a door'.  I have NO idea what they think I said but they turned around and hightailed it outta there.  I assumed someone was behind me....so i ran too, straight into the lady that owned the hotel where we would end up staying the night.

Yeah, that lady thinks we're crazy.

The next morning we hiked to see the old sanctuary of Apollo and stole some shells.  Poor angela is still certain the wind was apollo's wrath.  We've got a working title for the horror movie already.... Apollocalypse....GET IT? tee hee.

We grabbed breakfast and jumped on another ferry to Santorini, supposedly one of the locations of Atlantis.  I dont know about all that...but whatevskies.

I actually preferred Paros to Santorini but...maalesh.  can we talk about the awesomeness that is BLACK SAND??!! It's AWESOME! and...i totally rolled around in it. We also hiked a mountain...in FLIP FLOPS, to see the ruins of the ancient city of Thira.

I hiked up a mountain....

I am the most nonathletic person that ever existed and I hiked a mountain in my rainbows, which are now dead, I'd dearly appreciate another pair, parents of mine.

I'll post pics soon.  All in all, loved greece.... LOVE EGYPT MORE!