Akropolis at night take 2

You know how I was supposed to make cookies for my friend's birthday the other day? Well, all was good and dandy as I mixed the ingredients together and taste tested the cookie batter (my favorite part!), but when it came time to take the cookies out of the oven, all I saw was smoke...

I'm not the best of cooks, but I have burned things on a few occasions, only a few though! Thing is here in Greece, the ovens aren't really the same, everything is in Celsius (including the weather!). I'm not exactly sure what went wrong with the oven that morning (either I set it to the wrong temperature, or the wrong setting), but instead of trying to set off the fire alarm for a second time that morning, I surprised the birthday girl with leftover cookie dough!

In order to make up for the burnt cookies that morning, I lead the way to a look out place down in Athens so that you can see the Acropolis at night, and let me say, it just gets better each time I go! I even get a little pang of jealousy when I see locals hanging out around us, I mean they can pretty much come see stuff like this almost anytime they want, it's just not fair!

The view was extremely breath taking and I have to admit, we were being the stereotypical tourist and taking lots and lots of pictures, which means that we were there probably 30 minutes more than really necessary. But when we were getting ready to leave and gathering up our purses and bags and bags of souvenirs that we had bought that day, something seemed to be missing...Brianna's purse!

Unfortunately we weren't able to find her purse that night (after at least an hour of looking), but luckily it didn't contain anything non replaceable. But the thing that amazed me the most, was that there was 6 of us, a decent sized group, and there was always someone standing near our stuff, but somehow, someone was able to sneak past us (all 6 of us!) and take her purse. There were times when we doubted Brianna's placement of her purse and suspected that she had left it elsewhere or it had fallen, but she was 99.99% sure of where she had left it, and that it was gone. On a slightly funny note, when we were attempting to ask around to see if anyone had seen a purse (don't forget we're in a foreign country and people don't exactly speak English here) we got a lot of weird looks. There were these two guys sitting on the rock looking kind of suspicious so we decided to approach them, but when we tried to ask about a purse, they understood it as us asking can we join you, to which they motioned for us to take a seat (and they even attempted to bribe us with alcohol). Don't worry we were sensible enough to accept the offer and join them for only a little bit, wait, that's not how it went! Luckily we've all brought a decent amount of common sense with us that night and we knew we needed to turn around, so we did, and they left us alone (yay!).

To leave on a completely different, but good note, today was the weekly Monday market that's right down the street from us! They've got a bunch of good stuff like yummy fruits and vegetables, and even some fresh fish. Today we went in between classes in order to get some food to last us the week and I got all of this good stuff for under 10 euros!! My purchases included 5 apples, a banana bunch, some kind of delicious melon, a head of lettuce, carrots and zucchini! This is one of the top things that I'm going to miss about Greece, all of the cheap but scrumptious food that's in walking distance of our place!