sleepy ferry time?

i guess we will see how well sleeping on a ferry goes overnight tonite. at least weve got beds of some sort. im not even going to venture to think of what a "bed" consists of on a cheap ferry, haha.

yesterday we went to acropolis, where the parthenon is. i actually never knew how high up it was, kinda crazy. it was what it was... cant come to athens and not check it out no matter how touristy it may be... on the way up there were a lot of little cafes and restaurants that actually look really nice but they become quite annoying when every old man who owns each one starts yelling at you to sit down and telling you they have "snacks" and coffee and whatever. every one. it was so annoying. theyd just start walking next to you for a minute and try and convince you to sit down. we were hungry but we kind of have a deal with ourselves that we will never stop and eat at a place when someone comes up and starts talking to us trying to convince us to come in. even when we stop and look at a menu posted outside (this happened a lot of barcelona), they come right up to you and try and get you to sit down and wont even let us look over the menu. this is when we leave! anyway, around where we are staying there are some great places to sit and eat or get coffee. the people are all really nice. however, a couple of times we have had kids come up to us trying to tell us lighters or keychains. its sad. usually its just adults selling random shit, or rather adults plain begging for money. this time their parents sent them out so it was kind of weird. it was just sad, like i said. and i dont know how these restaurants let people walk in and try and sell the people eating there stuff. people always coming up with roses and other shit... its just annoying. anyway... while trying to find our way up to acropolis we ended up in what felt like wandering through behind houses or something. i cant even describe it because its nothing like anything at home. its up a mountain and just little paths and stairs between buildings that are close together. it was kind of cool. definitely didnt feel like anywhere else weve been, which is nice because sometimes cities start to look the same to me in a lot of ways. we grabbed some food to eat and watched the greece/sweden game last nite too so that was fun. we ended up in this nice restaurant/coffee place where it seemed all the middle aged and older men went to watch the game. it was fun though because it felt like we were really in the culture and around the people.

okay, must go. got to check out and then wander for the day. ferry leaves tonite. :-)