Not Until Next Thursday

Today we spent most of the day sightseeing. Grace (the dentist) and Ben stayed to do dental clinics and the rest of us left around 11:00 to head off to Corinth. We spent a few hours wandering around  and looking at temple ruins.

This last shot is the balcony view from where we ate lunch and we got a nice deal on a family style lunch with lots of goodies (like 10 euros a person). Something we've noticed here is that even though the economy sucks here, people still don't try to eek every penny out of you. Already on two meals, we've gotten food on the house or at a discounted rate because the waitstaff has just been extremely friendly. That's been kinda cool to see.

After lunch, we drove up some hills to the Acrocorinth castle/fortress. We hiked a good way up and  got a great view of the sea, Old Corinth and New Corinth.

Once we hiked back down (which believe me, was a blast to do in flip flops on slippery rocks), we drove to a little beach area to check out a church that was flooded at one point but still kind of there under the water.

There was one other stop before heading back into the city (to a canal) but I didn't get out to see it because I had a contact bothering me and ended up having to keep it in a water battle lid while only being able to see with one eye (it was complicated). We got back into the city around 5:45/6:00 and we were supposed to go to a bible study/church service thing but we were late and it was packed so we pretty much bailed. We ended up going to eat dinner a little later and if you're wondering about the name of this post, here's when this happened. We were waiting by the bakery for everyone real quick when a guy backed into a motorcycle like 10 feet away from us. Bruce yelled for the guy to stop and grabbed the bike in time and it was no biggie. The guy in the car drove off quickly but then came back about a minute later and spoke a lot of quick Greek to Bruce right then. Since Bruce doesn't speak Greek, he just looked at the guy, smiled and said "not until next Thursday!" This is typical Bruce; saying random things when people won't understand him! We all spent a good 10 minutes laughing at that one afterwards. After a complicated dinner (there was a bunch of "what comes with this" and "......." back and forth with a waiter who spoke very little English, we walked back towards the hotel to get some dessert at the bakery.

Since then, we've all been skyping and calling people in the lobby (where there is wireless). Tomorrow, we have an early start and a full morning. We're leaving the hotel around 7:30 am and heading out to the Acropolis first. Then, we're going to a Greek church service and then coming back here for some more study stuff after lunch. In the late afternoon/evening, we should have some down time to just relax before we hit up a three island cruise on Monday. So, that's all for now I guess. I uploaded my pics to Facebook and I'm trying to see if/how it will work to link it here so stay tuned for more info. on how to see my pics.