Weekend in Greece - Day 4

Our last day had arrived and we were not ready to leave.  Jen and I woke up a little earlier because we wanted to try out the bakery up the street everyone was talking about.  I got a decadent ham and cheese croissant that hit the spot.  The bus picked us up from the hotel and it was about a 40 minute ride to the airport.  We got to see the first ever Olympic Stadium on our way there, which gave me chills to see.  Getting to the airport was easy and we had a little time to kill so we grabbed lunch at a good ole Greek McDonald’s.  Many of us tried a “Greek Mac” which looked like a gyro in the picture but ended up being basically two hamburger patties with lettuce and tomato on a pita bread with a sauce that Jen said reminded her of ranch.  Nevertheless it was still good and fun to say we ate Greek McDonald’s.

 

First Olympic Stadium

Greek McDonald's

Our first flight thankfully was much smoother than the trip in.  I lucked out again and got the window seat so I had perfect views of the coast, crystal clear water just like the movies.  The flight was much better in general and thankfully we didn’t run into turbulence this go around.  We had about an hour layover in Zurich so we just hung out for the most part and waited to board.  This flight was better as well with a little turbulence because it was very cloudy out but once again we were all thankful it was nothing like last time.  Once we gathered all our stuff, our next adventure of getting home began.

Beautiful Views of Greece from above

Jen, Jake, John and myself all stuck together to take the metro home.  We were looking around for how to get there and while we were, nearly the rest of the group accumulated looking for it too.  It was quite funny to see all of us so confused because we could not figure out how to go “downstairs” to the metro.  Eventually I saved the day J and figured out what the arrows and everything meant and we found the station.  Well we may have found the station and got our tickets but we got on the wrong metro.  But of course we did not figure that lovely detail out until Jen looked at the sign and saw a few stops were skipped.  It all made sense because when we entered the metro I had said we had 15 minutes until it arrived, but the rest of the group got on the one that was sooner, so of course we just followed.

We all made the executive decision to get off at the stop when we realized we were wrong and it took a little while to figure out our where abouts on the map.  When we did the boys took the initiative to lead us home, I’m near positive they had no idea where we were going but they insisted they knew, so we just went with it.  It took about 30 minutes to walk home from where we were but we eventually made it home around 9.  Gemma made us pasta carbonara while we unpacked, which we were veryyy excited for.  After dinner we organized our stuff a little then headed off to bed to catch up on all our rest from such a great weekend.