December 14th, 2004

Hello lovers!! This is Bri writing... I'm at home now! I left the girls in Berlin on the 9th and made my way home on the 10th. I told those chumps that I would update the website since it's hard to do it when you're living in hostels, so here it is!

So, we haven't updated this in awhile. I think the last time we did was back in November... maybe after Sicily? So, after Sicily we went to Rome. Wait, maybe we did write about Rome. Just in case, Rome was awesome! We did a tour of the Coliseum and the Roman Forum. We also ran into Katherine Risley from Acadia! She just happened to be staying at the hostel we were staying at and waked in one morning while we were eating breakfast. That was pretty crazy! Ps - sorry if I spelt your name wrong, Katherine.

While in Rome we did a lot of sightseeing, but we also dressed up in togas! There was a toga party at the hostel we were staying at so that was cool... running around Rome, trying to find pizza, in togas. Hahahahahahahahahahhaha.

Anyway, after Rome we took a train to Bari, which was a VERY scary place. I heard a gun shot there... well, the girls didn't think that that was what it was. But, I did! It was scary whether it was a gunshot or not though. Luckily we weren't staying in Bari... we only had to go there to catch a ferry to GREECE!!

The ferry was about 15 and a half hours... it was disgusting! Actually, it wasn't that bad... we got into Patras and caught another train to Athens which stopped part way through because the train was malfunctioning. We had to get off the train and get on a bus... except it was all in Greek so we had no idea what was going on! People were yelling at each other all over the place!! Greek people are loud!

Anyway, we went to a hotel in Athens, which turned out to be awesome! There was a little bar in the hotel and all the men who ran the hotel or worked there hung out in the bar. They invited us down for a welcome drink of Ouzo, a very gross Greek shot. The people there included Murphy the bartender, Vassilius the "boss" and George, the large, Greek man with a mullet. That night Murphy convinced us to go to Santorini, one of the Greek islands. We couldn't make the ferry that next morning so we spent another day in Athens and then headed to the island early the next morning.

Santorini was awesome... it's a tiny Greek island that is totally run by the tourist industry. While we were there it was completely shut down! But, it was still fun! On the first night we realized that there were a lot of stray dogs in Santorini... one started to follow us and eventually it turned into six. It was SCARY! They wouldn't leave us alone and when we tried to go into restaurants all these dogs followed us so people probably thought we had lots of weird dogs. They would run in the street around us and they weren't very smart... one was hit by a car!

Ok, I have to go now but I'll continue this exciting story soon! Oh, the dog wasn't hurt when it was hit by a car... so no worries! I don't want anyone upset over the stray dog!