DAY 5 - Syros and back to Athens

So after trying to figure out how to turn on the freakin AC in our room, we all fell asleep in the heat which wasn't so bad because I get cold really easily and it actually felt comfortable to me. We woke up at about 8:30 and I took a shower and went down to the lobby to hit up that continental breakfast before taking the quiz at 10:00. We all decided the night before to meet as a group and study before the quiz at the breakfast. The quiz was once again hard. I'm just going to admit that I'm not good at history. I'm just gonna say that. After the quiz we met our guest speaker for the morning. Her name was Valentine and she was the most energetic woman I have ever seen. Her mother was a famous artist in terms of the theater. In fact her mom helped start theatrical productions in Syros. So all morning, Valentine showed us her house, the church of Saint Nikos, the theater her mom basically created and beautiful views of the city. It was a great morning. We all loved Valentine and wanted her to adopt us as her grandchildren.

After the tour we had free time til 3:00pm. I had mentioned earlier that I wanted to get my ears pierced on this trip so Alex, Sarah and I saw a clean, sterile place right around the corner from our hotel. We headed over there after the tour. So we get there and there is no one there that speaks english so we left and were like "we'll try to come back later!" So we started going to shops with really nice clothing. We looked for dresses and shirts and pretty much any article of clothing or jewelry. We shopped for an hour and then went to lunch. For lunch, I got a tomato and feta sandwhich for 2.50 euro. It was really good except the feta was too overwelming so I just picked it out and put it on my plate. Man that sucker was salty. After lunch we hit the shops again for the last 2 hours that we had in Syros. At 2:45 we were like, "let's try the piercing place again before we have to meet the group at 3:00! Plus the hotel is right there." So we ran to the piercing place and there was a woman who spoke English and I explained to her that I wanted two holes, and I picked out two pretty blue studs and he sat me down on the piercing table and pierced my ears. So guys, I got my ears pierced on the Greek island of Syros. It cost me 20 euro total which wasn't too bad. I showed everyone when we got back to the hotel. I was telling people how I really wanted to get another hole so we'll see how that goes...

So we all packed up and left the hotel to head for our ferry which was to leave at 4:00pm. As we were waiting for the ferry, Alex, Shaina and I went for a quick gelato run. This time I got cherry and cream - it was good once again. So we boarded the ferry and left Syros and headed back to Athens. We all felt depressed to head back since the islands were soooooo beautiful. This is my last night in Athens once again for a while. We're heading to 5 more cities on the mainland so we'll be gone for 6 days 5 nights. Apparently we're making a 999 steps climb up a mountain in Nafplio which was the first Greek capital. Hopefully we will all survive this, man I can't wait! guys, everyday is an adventure here. When I come back from our 6 days of touring I'll basically be getting ready to head back into the states - man I sware it's going to be hard to leave. But I don't want to think about that yet...