Gads. New word to my vocabulary. Where did this funny word come from? My mother in law (still weird to say those three words Mother. In. Law. whoa) this word/statement has been directed towards me on numerous occasions in awe (or disgust) of my odd behavior happening at that moment. Fact, I secretly love when she says it to me. Makes me laugh.
Why Gads?
uh.... just spent a week in greece, thats gads.
Seems like it didnt happen now, but it did! Best week ever.
I was so excited for this trip i could hardly stand it, sleeping didn't happen the week leading to this adventure thats for sure. I never use to get super excited for family trips but this time I was. Not sure why I was unbearably excited, maybe the fact that I had finally graduated from the kids cabin to a room of my own. Or that everyone was going to be there. It was great.
Low down goes like this.
My family headed out a few days before us to have some time to adjust to the time zone and see vince. Due to the fact that we get 10 days of vacation a year we decided to go two days late. They flew out wednesday we went friday.
flew all night. Didn't sleep. Shaun snoozed thee ENTIRE time. I was jealous. Freakin' 9 hour flights.
Got of the plane and headed to find some type of taxi to take us to the hotel my family had been staying at. Right when we walked out there was a guys standing at a booth with a big sign reading taxi JACKPOT. He told us we could take a private taxi or wait an hour and take the "shared". We needed to be on the cruise boat in 2 hours so we figured we better go private. We payed the man and headed on our way.
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Have you ever traveled foreign? Well if you have you will understand how the concept of how much things cost gets lost in the exchange rate. 1 dollar equals 1.32978473 Euros so take the dollar times it by 3 divide by 2 minus 1.... Screw it, I don't do math. Anyway, that private taxi... cost 110 euros. That equals 155 dollars. How about that Jackpot? oops..
As we walked outside we saw signs to the taxis followed them and they led to the ocean with boats everywhere. Come to find out taxis in venice are all boats! These boats are not like the good ol' fashioned gondolas your imagining (thank heavens) they are speed boats baby! It was so cool. I'm not sure roads really exist in that city, to the looks of it everything was water "roads" equipped with speed limits and turning lanes.
After a 30 minute tour of the amazingness of venice via water taxi we met up with my family, grabbed some pizza and gelato and headed to embark on our cruise!
We had a little tour guide take us to where we needed to be who ended up being hilarious. If the people around us did something dumb she would mutter something under her breath and shake her head. When we finally asked her what she was saying she responded by giving us a crash course on how to swear in italian. Useful knowledge to have folks!
We all but walked right onto the boat (no lines) and headed to explore our staterooms. Me and shaun explored by taking a nap. nap only lasted about ten minutes before my siblings came pounding on our door saying "no napping, or you'll never get over the time change" blah blah blah... i was so FREAKING TIRED. So... I napped... for another 10 minutes before my alarm went of saying it was time to head to dinner. &@#$!... didn't say it but I definitely thought it!
Dinner... not so great food
Service... could have been better
Ports... So So amazing!
Greece is B.E.A.uuuutiful! (name the show)
If you want know the details of the places.. ask.. i'll give you EVERY detail. But for the sake of blogging here is a few events worth mentioning.
Croatia has this meat that is called.... shoot can't remember. Pretty much extremly old bacon. 30 month old bacon. GADS! But, it was awesome!
Europe just knows how baking bread is done. I love bread especially greek bread.
Snorkeling is awesome but note that iphones particular ones of the white variety don't enjoy it. Hence the reason for no pictures.
Snorkeling also leads to seeing octopuses hiding under rocks. Kinda freaky.
Traveling abroad makes me want to live abroad, really bad.
Greece is EXACTLY what you imagine.
Athens is a huge city, stacked buildings for as far as the eye can see.
The greek temples are amazing. Those buildings date before christ's time, and are still standing! Unreal.
Greece was my favorite trip so far. I love europe!
Happy reading folks!
