Tuesday morning we checked out of the hotel in Iraklion, jumped on a bus, and made our way east on Crete to the city of Agios Nikolaus. First, we stopped at a really small Minoan villa called Nirou Chani. Then we went to the palace of Malia and encountered a ridiculous amount of snails. Of course, "Mamma Snail-Slayer" (me) was harassed by my classmates for repeatedly killing snails on accident. After we left that site, we headed to the Dictean Cave-one of the most intense but worthwhile of a hike up a mountain. This cave has the myth attached to it that Zeus was hid here as a child to avoid being killed by his father, Kronos. Anyway, this cave is really incredible-it has stalactite rocks and just a really pretty setup (weird, I know). After the hike down, we ate lunch at the site, and then headed to Agios Nikolaus. Once there, we setup our ferry tickets to return to Piraeus, showered, and went to a restaurant for dinner that, unfortunately, was my first disappointing meal in Greece (thanks, Al Dente). Oh, I forgot to mention that I destroyed Jacquelyn's converter with my hair straightener (the second time I used it on this trip). Oops....so the night ended with a little "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" action and we went to sleep.
The Dictean Cave
Wednesday morning there was a bit of a time mix-up. So a few of us ate breakfast and then went for coffee. We returned to the hotel, walked to the bus station and saw some of the greatest scenarios here in Greece. One little yia-yia was crossing the street with her groceries and darling Kylie thought she would be a peach and help the lady out. Well, there was clearly a misunderstanding because we turned just in time to Kylie getting grumbled at and slapped. Apparently, she thought Kylie was trying to steal her groceries. Clearly this little old mama doesn't realize Kylie only eats Greek Salad, bread, nutella, and gelato. To top off the time spent at this bus station, we witnessed Jacquelyn get elbowed and pushed to the side by another old little yia-yia. Therefore, my post title, "the yia-yias always win".
We took the bus to a Minoan villa site in Gournia, which was bittersweet (it was our last Bronze Age site [good] but our last class with our professor, Matthew [sad]). We returned to Ag. Nik. and Eileen, Jacquelyn, Kylie, and I went to lunch and had waffles!! It was really great. After that, we had a review session for our final test of the course, went to dinner with the whole group-at a pizza place-and headed to bed.
the group at Gournia, our last class :(
Thursday was our last day in Ag. Nik. We woke up, took our exam (which went much better than the first for me), and bought some groceries for our weekend vacation in Hydra. We took a bus back to Iraklion that afternoon, hung out in a park for a few hours, and boarded our ferry to Piraeus. This trip I roomed with Jacquelyn, Kylie, and Jess. We had some fun girl-talk time and eventually passed out-knowing we had an early morning ahead of us.
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