we had another late start, which was nice. i walked back to old town with erica, jenna, matt, brooke, and meghan and we all got a little shopping done. actually, i didn't. i tried, but old town was expensive, and all this money-spending is stressing me out. after that, we all met in the lobby for class, which turned out to be frustrating for a lot of people, but i guess that's what you get when you take 13 students abroad and 11 of them are girls. after class we had a couple hours before the bus took us to the airport, so meghan, shannon, and i walked to get some postcards and relax on the beach for a little bit. i've decided that while rocky beaches are not ideal for walking, swimming, or any kind of human interaction, they do sound quite nice. much nicer than water on boring old sand.
then we all took our bus to the airport, which was only a few minutes away. we got through security pretty quickly after rearranging our bags to make sure that no one had to pay extra for their heavy bags. i was 7 kilos under the limit! by the time we were done putting other people's things in my bag, i was only 2 kilos from the limit hahaha. we waited around for a while before riding a bus across the tarmac to our TINY plane. it had 9 rows with two chairs on each side. the ninth row had five seats total and no aisle. i was in the last row on the right window and the plane's wings were on top of the plane, which meant i got to watch the landing gear go up and down like a foot from my face. it was very cool and definitely helped to distract me from the fact that we were in a miniature plane flying over lots and lots of water.we landed safely in crete after about 50 minutes and took an AWESOME charter bus to our hotel. this thing was over two times the length of our bus in turkey. simply insane. our hotel is pretty impressive too. it's in the middle of a square, which is actually a circle, because it's in the middle of a traffic circle. that sounds confusing. we're on the outside of the circle. but there are a lot of restaurants right next door. chelsea and i got a corner room, so it doesn't look like your every day hotel room. and our balcony wraps around the corner so it's incredibly long.
after we all got checked in, all of us went to a restaurant down the circle. we sat outside and ate some delicious food while we watched two different things. first, every tv on the restaurant porches was playing the barcelona vs. man u. game. second, there was a protest going on in the middle of the circle. there were banners everywhere and people giving loud speeches on a stage. they were protesting the euro and greece's membership in the european union. it was really cool to see. after our meal, our waiter gave everyone free shots of rocky, which tastes like licorice. he cheered and took a shot at each of our four tables hahaha. i love the waiters here. they're always fun (and old, which is interesting). in turkey, they dilute rocky with water and it turns a milky color (rick steve's was drinking this on the train). but in greece, they drink it straight, and in shot form. i can't even drink diluted rocky, so i left my shot on the table. i also saw the faces of everyone else when they took their shots. i don't think i missed much. we all went to bed pretty early because this trip is starting to wear us down a little bit!
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