Day 14 - Travel

This morning we spent just hanging around the hostel as we had to leave at noon for the airport. We finally were able to sleep in as we got smart and closed the shutters so the sun would not wake us up. We went swimming in the infinity pool that the hostel had and just hung out and read waiting for time to go by. After swimming we headed back into our room and got ready to travel to Rome. We packed up and headed downstairs to see Poppy and her husband. Poppy's husband acts as the driver for the hostel and we had to wait for him to get back from a pick up at the airport. So again we waited. Finally he was back and ready to head back to the airport for our journey. We arrived at the tiny airport and were so surprised by how full it was and how small it was. We walk in the door and they scan our luggage even before we can get 5 feet in the door. Then we took our luggage to the check in counter. We couldn't check in because all of the agents that worked for our airline, were at the gate sending off the 12:35 flight to Athens. Once we could check in it was amazing at how many people were squished in this little airport. There are 7 "gates". Each gate was a door to the outside, no jet ways. We headed upstairs to the open air "cafe". This would be a terrace next to a typical airport snack stand. It was fine though because it was away from all of the people in the airport. We watched as two large planes boarded and took off, and figured it was safe to head downstairs. We headed downstairs and even though many of the people had gone, we still didn't have a place to sit. We waited and waited until it was finally our turn. We finally boarded the bus and headed to the plane. We climbed on board and were off to Athens. The trip to Athens is only 30 minutes so you get a drink take a sip and they are about to take it away again. Anyway, the flight was uneventful. We got to Athens and got our luggage (we had flights on different airlines because many of the small airlines in Europe only have a few routes that they fly). We headed to the next airline to see if we could check in because we had 5 hours between planes and did not want to lug our luggage around for that long. Well it turns out we had to because we were not allowed to check in for an hour and a half. We headed to the shopping area and Danielle bought a book to keep her busy and we got a snack....and waited, while we watched 6 boys from the country of Georgia (they had shirts on that told us this) use the luggage trolley's as race cars with a set course and a switch point where people went from the pusher to the rider. Anyway, we also saw them get caught and stop. We went and sat a the check in area until they let us check in. Then we found our gate and decided to get some real food, knowing it would be too late when we got to Rome to try and find food. After dinner we headed to the gate and waited some more. We hopped on the plan and were off to Rome. We got our luggage and headed to the bus (which we had to call and ask him to wait for us since our luggage was a little slow getting to us). We got to the hotel and crashed. We were excited about the hotel as it had a few things we were missing like a big bed, wash clothes and a tub! It wasn't long before we were snoozing.

Tomorrow, we head home! YAY!