Day 4: I woke up somewhere between
six and seven o’clock because I sleep early last night, 11 rather than 3. That
kind of ended my jetlag. Today, the hotel operated normally, meaning that we
had to eat breakfast at the lounge that served “good breakfast” and not “the
best breakfast in Athens.” The lounge breakfast had very similar food to the
main restaurant but it had 4-5 times less food. I was okay with it though. The
outside had a really nice view (you could see the Parthenon) but the sun was
really hot as well so mom, di and I went inside after 10 minutes of letting the
sun burn my neck.
A di is a…doesn’t do stuffer. He
didn’t write his journal yesterday so mom brought him down right after
breakfast and took him back to the room to write about yesterday. Meanwhile, I
got an email from Oscar pertaining to the announcement of the new ipod touch,
ipod nano, and the iphone 5. The iphone 5 was just stupid, doesn’t have
anything that makes you go WOW! The ipod nano is just like the ipod touch with
less capabilities. The ipod touch is very…colorful now. It’s actually kind of cool,
you get the screen of the new iphone 5 and everything else but the phone. Has
it always been this way? I think so. J
Baba and I departed downstairs once our wi-fi voucher expired, took our luggage
and headed for Loutraki, Corinth.
We made one stop before the hotel,
it was at the Corinth canal. It was so deep from where we were. To get you an
idea of the height; you could bungy jump there. The first thing we have been
doing when we arrive at places is look for Wi-Fi and thankfully, there was. Not
many places in Greece have free Wi-Fi. We next settled into our room and found
some amazing chocolate. It tasted so good; it was milk chocolate with some
milk-like cream inside and a piece of wafer. We said we’d leave in 15 minutes
to drive around the city before baba turned on the tv and started watching
Kitchen Nightmare.
Kitchen Nightmare is a show were
Gordan Ramsay goes to restaurants that taste like crap and help them fix it up
by appearance and food. In Greece, they don’t sensor anything so we got to hear
exactly what they said. It was really cool and if you’ve watched Hell’s Kitchen
or MasterChef, you’d know how much Chef Ramsay swears.
An hour later, when the show ended, we drove
along the beach and found a pizza joint and ate there. The pizza was not good,
coming from an American. After lunch, we went to the bank and got some cash and
traveled back to the hotel.
Once we got back, di, mom, and I went
downstairs to swim and baba stayed in the room to sleep. I didn’t swim because
there were no hot tubs. Actually, there
were at least 4 hot tubs but the water was as cold as the normal pools. The
only thing I did was sauna and go in the Turkish bath with mom. A di didn’t
sauna or Turkish bath because there was a sign that said, “children under 15
are not allowed to use the following facilities: sauna, Turkish bath, hot
tubs.” A Turkish bath is like a steam room but there is a little fountain at
the end of the octagonal room and it’s lights inside that change colors (not
that bright).
2 hours later, we went back up to
our room, baba was still sleeping. Since I left my phone in the car with only
15 percent battery left, I suggested that we go somewhere farther (so I could
get my phone) …and we did. GENIUS! We asked a hotel receptionist and he
introduced us to a restaurant right next to the beach. Once we sat down, I just
crashed and fell into a deep sleep. They woke me up when the food arrived and
told me to help them take a picture.
I was very grouchy and was very
reluctant to help my parents take the picture.
It was served seafood which is not my style of eating, no RICE! I was ok
with it though because my parents wanted to go and it was their 14th
anniversary. What a sad anniversary, having to celebrate with their kids… J We walked around the
beach after dinner for about 10 minutes and then back to the car. We drove home
afterwards and I started writing my day but I fell asleep, forgot to save my
draft, and my mom shut my laptop…JUST KIDDING! I finished it tomorrow. Today
was a good day.
Love
Asian Occasion
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