Greece: Athens

Acropolis Joey Elle and I

Acropolis view from apartment at night.

From Tanzania we flew to Greece via Dubai. We didn't have enough time to do anything during

our layover in Dubai because it was during the middle of the night but it was pretty cool to see the craziness of that airport. We were there all night and there must have been about 50,000 other people there all night also. It kind of looks and feels like a Vegas casino without the gambling.

Anyway from there we flew to Athens where we met up with Joey a friend of ours who studies the classics at the cleverly named American School of the Classics. We arrived on Thanksgiving day and Joey somehow arranged for us to have Thanksgiving with his school. Thanks Joey! The chef is Greek and I'm not sure if he has made thanksgiving dinner before but he nailed it dead on. Amazing food. Then Joey showed us around some of the major sites in Athens it's pretty fun to go with an expert you get some more insight than you probable would just reading the plaques. Joey had to go to Crete to do some learning and one of his friends offered us her apartment while he was away(Thanks Cher and Anne). The place had an awesome view of the acropolis and was in a cool part of town so we stayed on for a few more days exploring Athens and some areas nearby. Elle was offered a job cooking at a little cafe where we had some drinks with some of the classical students. She probably would have taken it if we weren't so broke by this point in our trip.