JACKHAMMER

 saturday morning has arrive, the bane of JWs last week, waiting for her family to arrive, when are they going to arrive, is their plane on time, will they get here on time, i hope that they aren't too hot.

we got up super early, for almost no reason at all, but we had to make it to the acropolis by the 8 am opening time.  no problem from the Adrian, as it was even closer than the Attalos.  we had to check out the breakfast bar on the rooftop before we left, the view was amazing, but the food was just MEH.

we lathered up on sunscreen and headed out, towards Hadrian's Library, and up the giant hill.  this hill is immense, and once you start walking up it, you realize, this is only the bottom of the base of the acropolis.  the acropolis is still miles above you.  

we walked up the way we always go, and their were minor folks involved in this story, but the gist really was that we finally arrived at the line to enter and it seemed emense, though, once we got in line, and it began to grow behind us, we realized how luck we were to be where we were.

JW was texting her brother, and the military came down the stairs after performing their duties, and we were standing in line, and drinking water, and the line began moving, and her brother was still not there, and the line moved, and we made it inside, so we sat there, waiting for them to show up, and then JW gets a text, they are inside!  i mentioned, did you tell them the main entrance?  yes, they were at the bottom entrance.  UGH.

so we hurried through a crowd of people, and made our way from a very high point, down to the bottom of the hill, you'd have to know the acropolis to understand, but at one point you can go up to the top, or down to the bottom, so we hurried down to the bottom, and very near there we ran into them, and hugged and said hello and it was a joyous moment that JW had been waiting for for the last 3 months.

we then made our way up, from the bottom, everyone looked at me to tell them things, because i drink and know things, but really, i have some knowledge of the acropolis, but most of those things i learned from Matt Barrett.  Cam and Cam Jr were 2 peas in a pod, barely wondering, mostly waiting, and Debbie and Brianne were looking, every sign, every scene, and many pictures were taken before moving on.  at one point we reached the entrance, and we pointed this out to them, for no obvious reason and then up the shiny stairs to the acropolis we went, and so many people awaited us, it was spectacular.

i will spare you the details, we wondered about, there were pictures, there was very little history involved, i'm not sure anyone cared, i did mention the blowing up part, and then as soon as it had started, we were making our way off the acropolis and out the exit, by the man with the entirely too large selfy stick, that the whistle lady kept telling him to lower, i'm not kidding this thing was 40 feet tall.  Debbie needed to see Areopagus Hill which sits lower to the acropolis and apparently Paul spoke to the athens about jesus.  I did not go up, but sat back and talk to the Segway guy about a giant plaque with something about Paul on it.  there was also a dude dressed in Spartan regalia, who decided to go up the stairs and a couple of cops followed him up.

after the acroplis we headed down to the agora, which is one of my favorite places.  it's large and well maintained and everyone had a wonderous time there, i think, maybe.

JW was so hard core about the Psiri, so after the Agora, we walked over there and mingled a bit before we headed back to the Plaka were the ladies shopped and then men stood around ackwardly.  it was a painful 5 blocks to be sure, but we eventually made it to our lunch destination and as the first people there, got the Prime location.  after we sat down the place filled up, it was another Matt Barrett recommendation, and we lucked out by being the first ones there.  the food was excellent.

after lunch we wondered around, it seemed forever before we eventually had to hug goodbye the other Welles and they went to their cruise and we went to our room for a nap.

after the nap we headed back to Psiri, of course, and bought soap from our main man John Kampanis, the owner of the soap store we love so much and our favorite restaraunt.  we got lucky and John was working the soap store and told us he was changing things up and making his own soap now.  JW was a bit discoraged, but we bought the soap anyways and then went straight to the Rooster for dinner.

After we (I) bothered the staff for a bit, John showed up and bothered us as well, we had a wonderful dinner and John helped us with our trip to Greece in 2025.  BOOM.

we walked back from the Psiri, only pausing to buy WATER and BEER, and then went back to the Adrian and packed our shit.  Neither of us wanted to recogonize this was our last night in Greece, it was too short, always to short, just as get our legs under us, it's time to go home.  but i chugged those beers like a champ and Jw packed and unpacked and packed shit like a Heavy weight champ and before it was over, we were mosquitto food for the rest of the night.

and then the pounding came.  OH GOD!  the pounding outside our window.  it was like a jackhammer on our soul.  apparently it was also a jackhammer on the sidewalk, someone was tunneling down to Hades.  please someone tell me this was a joke.  but no one came forward and the jackhammer continued, and we had to wait that one out, we have a 5 am wake up for our ride with Tassos at 6.

eventually, make midnight, the hammering stopped, or maybe from desperate tiredness, we simply fell asleep, who's to say, but it was a blissful 5 hours of sleep on those terrible terrible matresses at the Adrian Hotel.