European Vagary

Alright folks, let's do this thing. I just got back from Oktoberfest today and I'm already blogging about it (will wonders never cease?). Alright, so the flight was uneventful and quite short. After flying into Munich on Friday morning, Ashley, Cara, Laura, Anna and I all got on the metro and made our way to our campsite. It took us a while to find it because the directions we had were seriously wrong. But we finally made it and I took this picture of our campsite which was at Olympic horse stadium (that's how I got this nice aerial view, bleachers). Then we all made our way to Oktoberfest itself and Ashley and I took the picture when we first arrived, aren't we cute? Then we got into the Paulaner tent and grabbed ourselves a table and some beers. Paulaner beer is the best beer I've ever tasted. Anyone who knows me knows that I don't (didn't) like beer, but my first sip of Paulaner and all I could think was "wow that's good". Definitely my favo...

Alright, I've been so focused on blogging about Greece that I've been neglecting the past week, so here's a recap: On Monday was my first day of real classes. I have to leave home at 8:15 in the morning and I get back at 7:15 at night every Monday and Wednesday. It's a long day. My classes are interesting though, I'm really glad I think I picked all of the best ones for me. I'm taking Ancient Roman Art, Rome and Renaissance Literature and Science and Religion. Science and Religion is my favorite class thus far, because we have heated philosophical discussions in class which I always enjoy. Yesterday we all talked about what we would do if we were in a position where someone was holding a gun to someone we loved's head and told us that if we said we didn't love them then they wouldn't did but if we said we did then they would die. I said that I would definitely say I didn't if I knew the shooter was telling the truth, but if I didn't kn...

Disclaimer: There will be relatively few photos in this post because I didn't take very many. I'm not going to beat around the bush here people, I was partying the whole time. Cameras are not conducive to partying. Also, you will need to know beforehand that this blog will be about partying and funny/silly/somewhat dumb things that Ashley and I did on the island of Mykonos. If you do not want to read about these things, I suggest you leave now. That being said, let's start off with the ferry ride over to Mykonos. We took the superfast ferry and actually had reserved seats so that was a nice departure from the first ferry. When we arrived in Mykonos, our resort (Paradise Beach) picked us up at the port and drove us to where we were staying. That was a nice touch. Once we arrived, we checked in and found out that we were staying in a box. No seriously. This was our first taste of Mykonos: However, I believe the box started us off on the right foot. Once we realized we weren...

Alright I guess I'm feeling quite ambitious today because I have decided to undertake the Santorini post as well. So where were we? Ah the ferry, we took a 9 hour ferry from Athens to Santorini which was semi-uncomfortable but not too terrible and I was able to listen to music and read a John Grisham book the whole way so I was a happy camper (King of Torts... for those who are interested). Here's a picture of Anna and I on the ferry. Our group was split up so Anna and I ended up sitting solo: Then we arrived in Santorini and George (who I don't have a picture of, darn it) picks us up to take us to Pension Stella. This hotel was gorgeous and George and Stella, who ran it, were probably the nicest people you'll ever meet. They asked us if we wanted iced coffee or orange juice and brought it out to us while we were sitting by the pool, all gratis. They kept our rooms super clean and always changed our linens while we were gone during the day. The bathrooms were wonderful ...

Ok I'm doing my Greece trip in three parts because I really cannot handle the idea of doing it all at once. Even three parts seems kind of daunting. Part one will be regarding Athens because I went there first. Parts two and three will be Santorini and Mykonos respectively, but those come later. Ok, so right off the bat, it begins thundering, lightning-ing and pouring rain right as our plane is getting ready to leave from Rome to Athens. We were all glad to be leaving Rome right when the bad weather started (and we did end up missing most of it while we were gone which was sweet!), but it was annoying because we had to wait forever on the tarmac while the planes were slowly taking off during lulls in the storm. We still ended up hitting the worst turbulence of my life. Ashley and I seriously thought that we were going to die. Here's a picture of the lightning that I managed to take with my camera, I am so pro-status: When we got to Athens, we all went to our hostels and went to...