Thursday, June 12, 2008

Gerolimenas day + Athens BACK

So we woke up around 8:20 and definitely had class at 9:00. We were slow this morning but we eventually made it as everyone was waiting for us on the bus. Today was probably one of the coolest things we've done this whole trip. We went to the Caves of Diros. It was sooooo cooooool! Right when we got there we were given life jackets because the first part of the cave was a 1200m boat ride. So we divided into groups of 6 and hopped on the boats and began our boat adventure. I was snapping pics like crazy. And I was trying to remember what stalactites and stalagmites were, like which ones grew from the ceiling and from the ground. I hypothesized that stalactites hung from the ceiling - fyi, I was right according to wikipedia. We sang songs during the boat ride also: Row, Row, Row your boat - we did this in rounds. Once we got off the boat we walked for about 300m through the cave until we reached the exit. I told Alice as we were walking out that the next time I come back to the caves, I'm going to swim the canal - she laughed at me.
We were all telling Alice how much we enjoyed the cave. So we made it outside and we were all waiting around for the 3rd group to come through. We got attacked by killer beatles while we were waiting. At 11:00am we were all starting to get hungry so we were assuming that the bus would stop fairly soon after we got on. We didn't end up stopping til 2:00pm. Man did I have to pee! We eventually got back to Athens around 5:00. I went back to my apartment and dropped my luggage off and went to Arcadia to check email, blog, etc. After that Steph, Julie B, Julie, Alex, Sarah and I went to this gelato dessert place and studied for our quiz for a while. This was also the night that Greece played Sweden in the European Cup which is a big Soccer tornament in Europe every four years I believe. We found out the next day by context clues on the newspapers that Sweden beat Greece 2-0. We're hoping the Greece can pull through to the next round. They play again June 14th at 10:30pm Greece time - at this time I'm gonna be on the plane heading home...dang.

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