Halloween Abroad

So we got into Athens on the early morning of the 28th and spent the next couple days lounging and kicking butt on the scavenger hunt.  Then came the 31st aka the best day of the entire year.  The only bummer was we were going on a day trip to Sunion and wouldn't be returning until all Hallow's Eve was well under way, so no dressing up this year for me. First in 22 Halloweens :(

Anyways, sentimental moment over, that morning was the 2500th anniversary of the original Athens marathon, so me and my roommates headed out to the finish line and watched the poor suckers who were running come in.  We saw a bunch of the 10K-ers cross and they just looked so proud of themselves!  It was great.  And then we heard this big roar and saw the rent-a-cops (who were really cute btw, see my creeper pic below if you don't believe me :) freak out and then the truck with the time clock drove by and then......the winner of the marathon ran literally 10 feet in front of me!  And he didn't even look like he was working that hard!  We saw a few more finishers including the first woman - who looked like she could kick anyone's ass - and the first Greek.

Awesome runners in costume (yay Halloween!) They ran 10K in sandals!

THE WINNER!!!

Kara - you would love it here :)

After all this, we hopped on the best and went to Sunion which is at the southern most tip of Greece.  The bus ride was rather painless, no motion sickness this time.  We got there and thought that it was going to be a kind of structured trip like all our others had been, but we got off the bus and Elaine said "be up at the Temple of Poseidon at 5, have fun on the beach."  So we had nearly 5 hours to frolic around.

The water was a little too chilly for my liking, but some braver souls (or stupider) jumped in.  I wandered around, played soccer on the beach, and got a tan.  Jealous?  It was the first Halloween when I didn't have to try to figure out how to discreetly wear 95 layers of clothing to keep warm :).  We also buried Elaine's kids in the sand and decorated it to look like Sand Mermaids and Sand Gremlins.  Best costumes ever!

It came about time for us to head up to the mountain.  We had heard tales of a foot path the led you up so you didn't have to walk back to the highway and then go us, but it turned out to be pure fable.  Or we were too stupid to find it.  So I decided that the best idea was to just climb up the mountain - in a skirt and nature sandals.  I made it, led the way actually, and the stupid wussy boy following kept complaining, but we made it up to the temple a good 20 minutes before the people who took the highway so hah!

The temple was really cool!  We watched the sunset over the sea and took lots of pictures, but sat and just looked a lot too. And because of daylight savings, the sunset an hour earlier so we left and hour earlier and I had time to watch Buff the Vampire Slayer (the movie of course) with the roommates. "What do you have that the other slayers didn't?  My keen fashion sense!" Love that movie (and miss you Bri!).