Back to Athens

First of all, Congratulations Eric!! I'm happy for you! This morning, we started shopping for ourselves and others right after breakfast. It did not take us too long since we basically knew what we wanted to get. We ended up taking a cab to the airport, but still had to lug the bags up the endless flight of stairs at our hotel to get to the street where the cab was already waiting. We met some really nice Aussies who were on the same flight. Meeting other tourists has been so much fun throughout our trip. The flight to Athens was 40 minutes long compared to the 8 hour ferry trip we took to get to Santorini. Thankfully, Mom and I both got our luggage still in good condition. Taking the metro afterwards to get to our next hotel in Athens was absolutely hysterical. We had to switch metro lines and it was when the train was crowded with people from work. Imagine Mom and I lugging our large suitcases along with 2 carry-ons each on a crowded subway. Yikes. Then, when we finally reached our destination, we had to walk up 3 flights of stairs with all our stuff. Needless to say we are both pretty sore and tired from our long day yesterday and our luggage struggles with stairs today. We worked it off by walking for an hour to get to our dinner destination, which actually turned out to be one of the restaurants that we couldn't find the other day. It turns out there were fairly simple directions written in fine print in our Frommer's guide. Yup, we're smart. Dinner and dessert were delicious. Mom thought about taking the metro back to the hotel minus bags, but decided to huff it once again. The walk back only took about 30 minutes! We just had a glass of wine on the roof top bar at our hotel which had a view of the Acropolis and all of Athens all lit up at night. It's now 10:30 pm and we are ready for bed. Tomorrow is our last full day in Athens. We miss Santorini and we miss all of you!