- Just a forewarning that it's currently 3:30 in the MORNING and I'm trying my best to keep myself awake and busy with hopes of being able to sleep some on our 11 hour flight back to the states, so forgive me if I make any mistakes or go off on tangents (not like I don't do that normally...)
We hadn't planned on doing much today since we were having our final group dinner tonight, so once we had the majority of our things packed, we headed downtown to finish up the rest of our souvenir shopping in Plaka (probably our most visited site this trip). For me, I'm not a big spender on all the cheesy trinky dinks like magnets, t-shirts and the like, well, unless they are for someone else who I know would like them (dad *cough cough*), plus I admit I can be really cheap when it comes to spending my own money. So you shouldn't be surprised when I tell you I mainly just go along for the ride when my friends go shopping. But while we were out and about, enjoying our last day to wonder freely in Greece, I spotted a cute and homey looking store with yummy looking items inside (aka omnom).
As I was looking around, I saw towards the back that they had adorable homemade jars of jam/marmalade...now this is my kind of souvenir! Something that's made and used here in Greece , and is also something you can't exactly get in the States. In attempt to make the present to myself a bit more unique I was a little daring and chose the homemade lemon marmalade to take home (I've never in my life heard of this stuff in lemon form). I'm definitely excited to try it when I get home! The only problem about items like this is that they may not last that long....omnomnom.
While we were waiting for it to be time to meet up for our dinner plans, a friend and I went hunting for the Panathenaic Olympic Stadium. It took us a while and a awkward conversation with a Greek police officer who thought we spoke Greek (this is the downside of trying to speak Greek to others, they talk back to you), until we finally found it. I'm really glad we did though, it was really cool! There was a secret museum underneath the stadium with Olympic torches from all the different years and we even got to embrace our inner tourists and take picture on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd place podium (I got 1st of course).
After that we heading down to Sytagma to meet with the group for the last time (sad face). Tonight we got to hike up to the highest point in Athens where we were able to see a 360 degree birds eye view of Athens, and that's not even the half of it, we even got to see the sunset alongside the mountains (definitely not a sight we can see in Florida). We ended the trip with a scrumptious visit to (can you guess?) a restaurant on the side of the hill. There was lots of poli nastimo (delicious) food to be eaten and plenty of good conversation and laughs to be held. It was a good end to a trip and while I am looking forward to going home and being with family, I'm seriously going to miss this place, and the people I've experienced it with!
Tune in for one (maybe even two) more blog(s) to see how (and if) I survived my 11 hour flight back to the States. Can't wait to be home!
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