We took the bus back to the circle where our hotel is, and walked straight to the archeological museum around the corner. It was under renovation so the exhibit was pretty small, but it was still pretty interesting. The pottery was surprisingly different from everything else we’ve seen – a lot of it had shapes protruding from the main piece. For example, there was a pot with flowers sticking out of the sides. My favorite part was at the very end – there were a bunch of marble statues. That’s nothing too special, considering the number of statues we’ve seen on this trip, but there were two next to each other that really impressed me. The first was a statue from the first century BC and the second was from the second century AD. The older one was a block of rough stone with a relief of a profile view of a person. The second was the kind of statue you expect to see – fully body, amazing detail, and doesn’t even look like rock. The juxtaposition of these two dramatically different examples of minoan sculptures was just really interesting to me.
After the museum, we had class in the lobby before splitting up for lunch. I went with a larger group, but jenna and I ended up breaking away from them and going by ourselves. we saw a lot of greek hippies who were camped out under the protest banners. we were at the same restaurant as the night before and, as we left, our waiter told us that if we came back for dinner he would give our whole table freak rocky. NO THANKS. But we went back anyway haha. After lunch, we got some gelato and went into a bunch of shops.
We met up with Erica, brooke, Meghan, and matt and all walked down to the harbor. We walked along a VERY long pier. We walked for about twenty minutes before getting to what we thought was the end. But surprise, it kept going around the corner. We decided to turn back because we were getting a little hungry for dinner. While we were on the pier we made a friend – a german shepherd who we named zeus. He would walk ahead of us and then stop and turn around and wait for us. It was really cute. We shopped on the way back from the hotel and I bought a rug since I didn’t get one in turkey. It isn’t Persian, but it’s hand-embroidered silk. It’s beautiful.
When we got back to the circle, the crowd was intense for the protest, which was gearing up again. We went back to the same restaurant an met Chelsea, lisa, and john there. John convinced the waiter to bring us free mythos (greek beer) instead of rocky, so I didn’t need to buy a drink! We watched the protesters while we ate, and they were much louder than last night. It was pretty cool to be a part of it.
I met jenna’s boyfriend aaron on skype before going to bed. He accidentally called me sally. Who names their kid sally anymore? I also met her dogs louie and buster. She was more excited to see them than aaron.
I need to do laundry pretty badly again… but tomorrow morning we leave for santorini so it will have to wait. I can’t believe this is the last week!
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