Now, mind you, a few weeks ago when my parents were visiting a taxi driver offered to drive us up there as a mini tour and I was like "no way! thats totally walkable!". Well, I was wrong.
The walk to the hill from our apartments was about 20 minutes, and was not bad at all. It was when we got to the hill that I started getting nervous. Walking up the hill, there were a LOT of stairs. and I mean a lot. Not only that, but they were old Greek stairs, meaning that they're not normal stairs, nope, rather these gigantic stairs that little legs like me don't really enjoy. (hate)
So we got started, and two of the boys started running to the top, yeah right. I started walking with the other two boys and they easily got ahead of me. I swear, its the long legs. We were having fun and enjoying the view on the way up, so the first half went pretty smoothly. We got to the halfway point and WOW. The view was amazing. We started taking pictures, and drinking water. lots of water. We got started up again and this is when I started struggling, haha. With the heat and the walk it was rough. For anybody reading this that played club soccer for McAuley, think Coach Jionas the first day of club when he made us just run and run and run around the field for the entire 2 hour practice. Yuck! Thats all I could think about.
But then I got to the point that I knew I wanted to make it to the top and I finally did! Woohoo! Boy was that view worth the brutal climb! We got there about half an hour before the sunset and got to walk around, see the church and just enjoy it. I got some beautiful pictures of the sunset that will be hitting facebook once I'm home! The sun went down and we got some pictures, then stopped at the cafe at the top for some drinks. After the sun went down, I could see the entire city lit up, again, no words to describe the beauty! Plus a breeze without the sun! It was the perfect way to end excursions on this trip!
Struggling!
Farewell Dinner (the next day!)
The girls
Me and Eleni
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