This is going to be a long and probably random entry because there is so much to write. I skipped yesterday because I was absolutely dead at night. We woke up yesterday morning and had breakfast at our hotel. As soon as everyone was together, we got on the bus and drove about one hour to start our hiking trip. We went to Zagori. We started walking up this little trail and the scenery was to die for. All around you could see snow capped mountains and there were lot of tress and a river. We continued walking and the path began to get really hard. There were point where there was nowhere to grip your foot on. It was really scary. And my shoes were not helping my situation at all so I almost fell about 5 times and I semi-fell once. At one point, they made us climb the most impossible uphill and then they told us they make a mistake and made us all turn around. We stopped at a little monastery that was up there too. After a full three house of hiking, we found pavement. It felt so good knowing what I just did. It was a very natural rush, one of those things you k now you will never experience again. There was this cute little dog too that we picked up at the monastery and it led us all the way down. From there we all got on the bus and slept while driving to the Zagori villages. They were gorgeous. Very small with all stone houses. We stopped at one for lunch. The restaurant we went to ran out of food. Me and Joanna ended up just eating salad. We walked around a little and had a mini snowball fight. A bunch of people headed off again but me and Melanie stayed behind. We tried to find them or to find the monastery but we couldn't. We tool a mini walk of the village and then just sat and enjoyed the peacefulness. A long while later, the group came and said they had found a really beautiful gorge. I was and am so upset that I messed it. They took us back to the hotel and gave us a few hours to rest and then we had the option of going to the city and night. We all hung out in the rooms and talked. We formed a really fun groupl. Me, Joanna, Melanie, Minnie, Patty, Larry and Tim (whatever). We pretty much did everything together this weekend. We spent a bunch of time in the lobby too playing backgammon. I was teaching Patty and Brody strategies of the game. Melanie was playing with some Greek guys and she was kicking their ass. So then we all got ready and went to the center. Everyone wanted to go to another restaurant but I was personally sick of htem. Larry spent forever on his phone trying to find a good one from his cousin and we ended up at a new place. We made it a point to eat fish and I got trout and it was absolutely delicious. From there we wanted to go dancing but we were so tired. We found some other people at the restaurant from the night before. Nobody was sure what to do. We wanted to go home on the bus because when we told people where we were staying they had no clue what we were talking about. At the end we all ended up leaving. We stopped at Hageen Daaz first though. The interesting part of the night was on the bus when we had to make right turn but could not because a car was in the way. Somebody called the police and we had to sit and wait for it to get moved. It was absolutely crazy. Tons of people had gathered around and all this traffic was caused by one car. After about 45 minutes a tow truck came and moved it. By then of course we were all frost bitten and sleep walking. That is why when we got to the hotel I could not pick up a pen to write. But I did finally go to the bathroom.
Today we went had to wakeup bright and early again. We had to be ready to leave the hotel because we were going to walk around Giannena and then leave. We went first to a museum and saw some of Ali Passa stuff and some old weapons. We had some free time then so I set off on a mission to find bougatsa. We walked all over but I finally found Select, the best bougatsa in the world. We had to eat it running back but it was completely worth it. THen they took us to the little islad. They told us we only had half and hour and we all freaked. We had so much shopping to do. I bought a ring for me and then some stuff for Raina and Babs. Joanna found this nice bracelet and she was going to buy it. The guy was going to remove a link and he ended up kind of ruining it. Joanna pointed it out and he freaked out and told her he was not going to sell it to her. In a way that was good because she did not want to buy it. We ended up staying at the island for one and a half hours and whenever made it to the museum. Oh well. We were all ready so late taking off that we did not stay for lunch. We got on the bus to head back to Athens. I think the whole group just passed out. We finally reached Athens at about 10:30. We hopped in a cab and came home. Now I am in desperate need of a shower because I have not take on in thee (three that is, I cannot write I am so delirious) days because I was lazy and scared and I then I need sleep. The one thing that I did not do was call Jim which was really bad on my part but there was no way I would be able to see him anyway.
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