This morning, my sister got up and woke me up for the special surprise that we were going to wake Kostas with. Kostas had been waking up Hannah in all of these loud ways. Hannah is hard to wake up and he thought it was funny to see what it took to get her up and going. So, she wanted to have revenge on him before we left. She planned it carefully. So, here’s what we did. First, she got up, tiptoed over to my room, woke me up and I went to go sit on the couch. She snuck into Kostas’ room very quietly and turned on her Nintendo DS which she had prepared a sound recording that had her voice telling him to get up. In the background of her recording was the “mine, mine, mine!” of the seagulls from Finding Nemo which he had been saying to us for a couple of days. So – he woke up but he was confused. That what happens when you just wake up! It was funny and I think Hannah was happy to have her revenge. I liked helping her.

Then we got packed up and Kostas took us to say goodbye to his mom and then dropped us off at the train station. It was hard to say goodbye to him. I had so much fun.

We got on the train almost right away and had a 1 hour ride to the our next stop. Then we caught another train for 3 hours that took us to the port where we would catch the ferry. The problem with the train was that the First Class seats were in the car right after the diesel engine. It was so noisy that we couldn’t even think! It was great to get off of that train.

When we got to the port we went to the Superfast Ferry ticket office and got our tickets for a sleeping cabin. Then we walked across the street to get onto the Superfast Ferry. I had been looking forward to this ferry for 3 weeks. This boat was big. It had 10 levels, 6 for cars and trucks and the rest for people. We found our cabin and it was at the front of the ship overlooking where the captain’s quarters were. Our cabin was very nice. It had a shower and bathroom and four single beds. Two of the beds were up above just like on a train. Only they were way nicer. The shower was the nicest that we have seen in the whole of our trip so far, I know kind of weird, but it’s true, very true!

My dad and I went to go explore all the way to the top of the ship. We went outside where there was a pool and a restaurant, bar and snack shop. But we couldn’t swim in the pool because all of the water was out. So we went back all the way to the ground level where the bars and casino and video arcade and shops were. We explored a bit and then went to get my mom and Hannah for dinner.

I had spaghetti for dinner that night and it was fun to eat a real meal on the ferry. We went to bed and I slept really well.