Epidavros

So in place of sharing my Friday experiences of class and nap time yesterday (aka blogging), I decided to go to a Greek play. Fair trade don't cha think?

After driving on an extremely curvy road up and around the mountains of Greece for 2 and a half hours we finally made it to Epidavros. What's in Epidavros you ask? Well, back in the day (aka ancient times), the town was originally known for it's spa. And eventually there was enough people who came and attended the spa, that someone decided to add more places of entertainment, including a ginormous theater! And I got the pleasure of being able to attend a modern take on a classic Greek comedy in that very theater!

Would you believe me if I told you that the actors/actresses didn't use microphones, but I could still hear them sitting up in the nose bleed section? It's true! Even though we were seated up in the upper section, we could always hear the words being spoken clearly throughout the play thanks to the layout of the theater, well, we could always hear them just as long as everyone in the audience wasn't laughing in unison (and that one obnoxious laugh that always seems to stand out).

Although the play was all spoken in Greek, and I my tush had to withstand the not so comfortable stone seats, I thoroughly enjoyed myself that night, and I'm really glad that I went! The actors did a pretty good job with their use of body language and expressions so that I could get a general understanding of whats was going on, and there were several occasions where I didn't even need to know what they were saying to get a good laugh in. But one of my favorite parts of the night was when they turned the lights down low, because we were quite a whiles away from the city, we could see all the pretty stars!

I'm sure with my talk of stars and 2.5 hour drives you won't be surprised when I tell you that we didn't get back till early this morning. Fortunately, there were no morning plans for today so we got to sleep in (finally!). After getting a good nights (or maybe morning in this case) rest, I awoke with hopes of exploration today!

Me and my friend Rebecca decided to stay close to the dorms this morning and venture down the main street where all the shops and omnom places are at. And for some reason today there were a ton of good sales going on at most of the stores (I'm not complaining), so I'm currently on the hunt for the perfect article of clothing that's not too expensive but also is something that you wouldn't be able to find in the US, or at least have the potential for a "cool shirt" comment so I can respond "thanks, I got it in Greece!" It's not as easy as it sounds... In the meantime, we passed by a good sized bakery that we had been eyeing for quite some time. It all looked so good and we had no idea where to start, so when a lady that worked there pointed to a cake ish looking bakery and gave it a thumbs up, I said why not?

Froyo place called Chill Box, they even put
your bowl into a fancy lookin box thingy!

It ended up being some kind of delicious pastry filled with some sort of white cream in the middle (it could maybe even pass as vanilla pudding). It didn't take us very long to devour this tasty pastry (hey, it rhymes!), and with full tummies, we continued on our shopping quest.

One of the things that has taken the most getting used to here in Greece, is the hours of operations. I've got the daily everything closes for 3 ish hours for nap time thing (which I don't exactly mind because that gives me time for a nap too :P), but what was really strange (or at least to me) was when we headed downtown to do some more shopping, all of the stores started closing and it wasn't even dark yet! The idea of stores closing early on Saturday night is just so foreign to me that I couldn't wrap my mind around it. Fortunately there was a cute little fro yo place that I've been wanting to check out just around the corner that keep me distracted. If you haven't noticed yet I'm taking full advantage of all the good omnom here, but who wouldn't?! And besides we've been doing a ton of walking so that evens it out...right?

Tomorrow we've got a another free day for exploring annnnnd, it my exploring buddy's birthday so that will make it all the more exciting! I've even gathered up some supplies to make her some yummy (hopefully!) chocolate cookies, but shhhh don't tell her it's a surprise!