Back in Athens!

I know, I know, I’m behind on the blogging. So today (Monday) we came back to Athens from Santorini. Our flight was delayed leaving Santorini by around an hour, but it was only around a 40 minute flight to begin with, so it wasn’t at all bad. We had allocated the afternoon to go to the Temple of Poseidon. Since that was not as easy as it originally seemed (there was another bus station for us to find) and we all needed to spend some time out of the sun, we decided to spend the afternoon in Athens.

We got back to the hotel around three thirty (Becky and Krystin went back to their apartments) and we hung out, showered, did some work, read, and organized ourselves for a few hours. Around six, we headed back out to meet Becky to do some shopping (we all still had a little bit more souvenir shopping to do) and to climb to the big rock near the Acropolis to watch the sunset (maybe not an island view, but still pretty awesome).

We managed to buy for all the people we needed to… I am a little bit regretful that I didn’t do more shopping in Delphi. The prices seemed better there. But depending on what we were looking for, prices were better in different places. Now we know. But the sunset was lovely (a little anticlimactic, as there were a fair amount of clouds. We were not the only ones on the rock – apparently it was a pretty popular viewing place. But the city sparked very nicely, and even with the clouds and haze, it was very beautiful.

After the sunset, we went back to the delicious garlic-dip-featuring restaurant. It was (again) delicious (and featured garlic dip – at least for me). After dinner, we shopped a little bit more, and headed back to the hotel. We were pretty much pooped. It had been a pretty busy last few days – we wanted to take a few easy.