Friday January 7th, 2010
Woke up at 6am ready to heave the massive suitcase across Athens to the airport. Got on the metro just fine (phew, no strikes today!) and managed to crowd in even at the always-busy Syntagma square. Almost died laughing when Rachel toppled backwards over her rolly suitcase in the metro. Much to the horror of the elderly Greek ladies around us, Rachel and I were both laughing too hard to pull her up, so she flailed about for a little while like a fish on land until she was finally uprighted. We continued to burst into giggles periodically for the rest of the ride -- it really was the most epic "trip" of all her many tripping incidents here in Greece -- until we realized that the the metro we were sitting on had been evacuated and it was about to head into retirement for the terminal! We scrambled off and waited in some random station for the next airport metro to arrive. Once we boarded and took off, we rose above ground and were able to catch a magnificent sunrise -- a big bright orange-pink ball rising amidst perfectly puffy, glowing clouds.
At the airport, all went smoothly (luckily the Greek check-in attendants ignored my slightly overweight luggage. Said goodbye to Rachel and boarded my 9:15 plane to Madrid! My flight is about 1/2 full, and as soon as the fasten-seatbelt sign turned off, people started moving all over the place. One couple moved into the empty row across the aisle from me and proceeded to half-way undress and make out with each other....
Time to get into Spanish-speaking mode! I better practice :)
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