This is going to be long...

I am sooooo bushed right now...but more about why later. It had been a while since I did an good update so this is going to be long. Here we go...

So the 7:30 ferry was running! YAY! Tuesday was mainly a traveling day. We got off the ferry around 2, and then immediatly got on to a bus for another 30 minutes. Then we scrambled around in a wild panic before we took the subway to the train station. There we bought tickets for Meteora. We had about an hour, so Joel, Sean, Eric and I crammed all our bags into one locker (after I had paid 1 euro towards someone elses fee) and went for lunch. We all had gyros, some plate, some pita, at a little greasy spoon. I also had really good lemon potatoes. Then we went back to the train station and got on our train right away. ( Terry, Eloa and Kelly Ann all went to Evia, some island close to Athens. Not sure what there is there but Terry was extremely excited by it. If their review is good we might take Dayna there.) The train was about 4.5 hours, and at one point we were't sure if we missed the spot were were supposed to get off on. The ride was really nice, through the mountains. IT IS BEAUTIFUL there! So green, it felt like we were in a rainforest compared to the arid islands we were just on. We even saw a few snow capped mountains. It hardly felt like Greece at all. We also saw the charred mountains from where the fires raged not long ago. Kind of freaky.

When we got to Kalambaka (the town closest to Meteora, we tried to call the Alsos house hostel, but apparently the Greeks don't know what a payphone is, you need stupid cards. Istead a crazy taxi driver approached us and mumbles things like: nice cabin, camping Kastraki, 5 euro and on and one. We didn't trust him to take us there so we paid him 5 euros to take us to Alsos house. At Alsos House, they only had one room left, with one double bed. But she said there might be room at the next place, which was owned by the sister of Alsos house's owner. So Sean and I checked that place out. When we got to the door there was a man standing there in a wife beater (and nothing else) and he said hello. Then his wife came up behind him, also in only a wife beater, and started shouting. Then they said "Just a moment" and partially shut the door and shouted some more. A few minutes later the wife poked her head out and said "Just one moment" and shouted some more. She finally showed us the room, which was obviously brand new. It was gorgeous! The whole place was kind of dark, with sort of a medevil feel. There was two single beds, a flat screen tv, and in the washroom, a raised bowl type sink. SO AMAZING. I love those sinks. I am not sure what they are actually called. The shower was very nice. I wanted that room really bad, but Eric whined about wanting the double bed. Both our rooms had big balconies and a great view of the amazingly beautiful Meterora.

After we settled in we walked to a mini market and bought some pasta and sliced turkey and chips for supper. We were very glad we took the pesto from the other night with us cause this store had so pasta sauce. We ate a late supper, had some coffee and went to bed. Sean and Joel pushed there single beds together cause Sean was scared of the medevil feel of his place. I'm sure Joel rubbed his back and sang him to sleep that night.

In the morning we packed up and hiked up to the monastaries of Meteora. I didn't think I would make it. It was a very beautiful hike and I am glad we did it. We ate lunch at some panoramic point by the first monastary. There was like 35 cats surrounding us during our meal, and we had to contastly beat them away. We had sandwiches and pudding we ate with our fingers for lunch. It was delicious. We saw three monastaries and entered two. It was 2 euros per, and we wasted money on the first one. It was a nunnery, and the only cool thing, the chapel, was packed with like 40 shouting germans. Great Meteora was the other one we went in, it was very big and nice and interesting. There was some manuscripts that were from the 800's. Some from Aritotle and Plato. Sean couldn't handle the stairs and tripped many times. There was also an ossuary with lots of gross bones in it. After that, we walked down, but this time took the road. It felt like it took forever. My body wanted to give out. We were all sore and tired, and frustrated. We finally made it back to the hostel, grabbed out bags and took a taxi to the train station. We were to sick and tired of walking we just wanted out of that town, so on a whim we decided to head to Thessaloniki.

Train people are not nice. They have no time to tell you anything. The next train to Thessaloniki was three hours away, so we decided to take the bus. We ate supper like bums on the bus. This bus was really nice, it must have been brand new. It was comfy too. I would have slept perfectly if it wasn't for the pounding greek music pumping out of the stereo. When we got there, we phoned a few places in out Lets Go book and took a taxi to Hotel Atlantis. It is not very nice, kind of gross actually, but it is cheap.

Today we slept in late, well I did anways, cause I was so worn out. We are not really sure why we are in Thessaloniki, or what to do here, so we just started walking. After what seemed like walking forever, we ate at 157, which doesn't know how to make a proper gyro. They tasted ok though. Then we walked around, through a cool square, by the sea. We also stopped in a bookstore for a while. Then we decied to come to an internet cafe and waste time. So here we are... sitting in an internet cafe, watching Eric's screen, trying to decide if the silouette of a woman is spinning clockwise our counter clockwise.

Tomorrow we are heading to MT. Olympus, but I am not climbing it, my knee hurts way to much. Maybe I will try and post some pictures now.