Tuesday - Today we visited a beautiful church. I lit a candle that was even taller than me. We put 4 Euro in a box and got a very tall candle that I lit. Then I put it down into this one bar and it started to melt. Then we went back to our hotel and Anna called us to see if we would like help with our luggage and to have coffee together. We said yes, so we brought all of our luggage to their family store and my mom had Greek coffee. I had a lemony tasty, very good drink. We were hungry so we went to go have souvlaki. Souvlaki is a yummy roll with chicken and French fries and onions and tomatoes all rolled in pita bread. You eat it all together in tasty bites.

After dinner, we saw the ferry come in and got on the Blue Star Ferry. This time that we went on the Blue Star Ferry it was packed FULL of people. They were all returning to Athens after the holiday weekend. Anna our friend and her mother were also returning to Athens. My mom and Anna talked for a long time on the ferry ride back to Athens. This ferry ride was one where you get to Athens at midnight. Luckily, our friend Kostas surprised us by picking us up. That was really nice. Then we got back and had a great night’s sleep.

Wednesday – This morning we got up, had a shower, and I went with Kostas' to his dentist appointment for his root canal. Poor Kostas, it only took ten minutes though. That’s a very short time, but I bet it hurt! After that he took me to Goody’s for lunch which is not exactly a fast-food place, but way better. I had a double cheeseburger, plain with catsup only, French fries and a drink. After that we met my dad and my dad and I went down to the train station to get our tickets for the train ride to the ferry we would be taking to Italy the next day. We got the tickets after going to three offices which each said to go to the next. Then we saw someone with a Aural Pass like ours, so we asked them which line to stand in. The pointed to the one that they were in and we were successful in getting the tickets at last.

Then we returned to Kostas' office and my mom and Hannah turned up. We went to a big department store to buy a pair of trousers for me. After that we went back to Kostas’ house to wait for Evi to arrive.

Evi got there and then we cooked dinner together. She showed us how to make a special dish for dinner. It was fun to cook together. After dinner, we went to sleep.