Just in Time

As I said earlier, Wednesday morning we left for Athens to pick up the Buick. We got up at 8 and boarded a bus to Athens at 9. We took the bus because Alexi's car was in the shop and pops didn't trust the Mercedes. I hated the bus. It was almost as bad as the trip over. It was about an hour to Kalamata and another 4 to Athens. I almost got sick because we were going around sharp corners and I couldn't see forward. I will never ride a bus again.

Leaving Kalamata we saw a fire in one of the fields. There was aton of smoke. I got some really good pictures. Upon reaching Athens we took a cab to see on of Yiayia's Aunts and her grandchildren. I went and played hoops and some soccer with her grandson Costadino. It was fun. We stayed the night in Titi's place because she was on vaca. We got up at 7:30 to be at the shipping office at 9. We signed some papers and then some guy took us to the port to get the car. At the port we waited at a little cantee with a bunch of smoking bums. Luckily it was really windy and the smoke was blown away. We waited for about 2 hours and then we went looking to see if we could find the car. We found it in a lot, but didn't think stealing it was a good idea. About a half hour later, a guy came and told us it would be 1 hour till we could get the car. So we waited, and waited, and waited, for about 1 hour and a half. He came back and said 5 minutes more. So we waited 30 minutes and he came back with the key. We walked into the lot, got the car, put in our bags (and yiayia) and drove away to see yiayia's uncle in Halkida, 1 hour away. After about a half hour I got hungry so we stopped at a McDonalds and grabbed a double cheeseburger and a chocolate shake.

We got to the house at Halkida and the Uncle was sleeping so we stayed outside and played cards. We went out to dinner in the town and met up with some of yiayia's relatives. At the restaraunt I spotted one of the ladies who got stuck in Paris with us. We said hi and then finished dinner. We stayed the night and left at 2:30. It took us 5 and a half hours to get home and then we slept. It's a good thing we got the Buick because the next day the clutch on the Mercedes got stuck and pops barely made it to the mechanic. The next to days we met up with thea sophie at the pool and I played with Achilea (but on the beach because he doesn't know the pool is there and his mom doesn't want to be at the pool all the time).