Markets and Mountain Climbing

This weekend, we decided not to go anywhere to save a little money, and as we are going on a class trip Monday night to Crete, we figured we didn't have to visit anywhere really cool. It was kinda a quiet weekend, but it for sure had it's highlights.

Since we don't have class on Fridays a couple of my roommates and I went to the Fresh Fruit market to pick up lots of fruit for this coming week and snacks for Crete. It was really nice and cheap. We got lots of fruit and it should last us for a while. The fruit here is generally delicious especially the watermelons and the grapes, so we got plenty of both, as well as apples, nectarines, and peaches. We also got carrots, tomatoes, peppers, and snap peas to cook with dinner. For dinner we made a delicious stir-fry that had some fresh garlic as well as peppers, shrimp, and peas. That night instead of going out, I walked 15 minutes to Crepa-Crepa which has the most delicious crapes, and I foresee most of my money disappearing there this semester. It is totally worth it though. So delicious. I got a nutella, caramel, graham cracker crape that night. Sooo good. I want another one right now.

Saturday we decided that we would climb up a large hill behind us. It was like 90 degrees and about 10,000 stairs with no shade and very little wind. All in all, very hot, but once we got to the top we could look down on the entire city (as this hill is conveniently close to the center of the city), and had a spectacular view of the Parthenon. It took surprisingly little time to get to the top, as our apartment is already part way up the hill, and then we had most of the afternoon to waste, so we went to a department-type store and bought nail polish, went back to the apartment, invited some friends over and had a girly afternoon painting our toenails, and watching Clueless. For dinner we baked a chicken with all the spices in our kitchen, some juice, carrots, and more peas. It was sooo good, but we had a lot left over (we actually mostly finished it for lunch today). That is something we will for sure try again.

After dinner for desert we took a couple people who have never had Crepa-Crepa and showed them what they were missing in their lives. It was the second journey for a couple people in 24 hours, and for a couple others for the weekend, and the first for a couple other people. I want to go back again right now, but three times in the same weekend would be a bad idea, but oh so delicious. After Crepa-Crepa, we went back to the apartment, I skyped Jeanmarie (that reminds me! Everyone needs to become a follower of my blog!) and my roommates, a couple neighbors, and I watched Saved! and went to bed.

This morning we decided to go to the Athens Flea Market, which is about 2 kilometers away. After walking that far, in the morning, it was kinda a disappointment. It seemed that everything was overpriced junk. Not exactly worth it. Whatever, where we were had a good view of the Parthenon, and had lots of random Byzantine churches. Not that I could tell you anything about the Byzantines. Maybe that is my cue to get some work done this weekend.

My next post will in either in or after Crete! (Unless something really exciting happens, like a riot.)