After going to bed early the night before, Matt and I woke up around 5:30AM. Matt had taken pictures of the sunrise when we first arrived but we decided to take them once again. I had the video camera and Matt had the SLR and we headed out on our early morning adventure. We had decided that we would try to get the sea with the sunrise behind it. This was a bit more difficult than we thought since our apartment faced the hillside.
There were more activities early in the morning than I ever would have imagined The cleaning crew was just arriving to work and the gardening crew was hard at work watering the flowers and lawn. We must have looked like idiots walking around the property with our cameras in hand.
We finally found some good shots by the mini golf course but couldn’t stay long because they were watering the surrounding areas. The clouds were out in full force, making for some very dramatic pictures. After the mini golf course, we headed up to the main swimming pool and front office. Matt and I found that a few of the apartments have their own pool, I really wondered how much those must cost. $$$
Finally we got back to our apartment and got ready for the day. This meant taking showers, eating a bowl of Golden Grahams, watching CNN (again), and putting on our bathing suits. We had decided that today would be a poolside day.
The pool was empty when we arrived a little after 10AM, so we got our pick of lounge chairs. We got out our books and sat for an hour until people began to emerge from their caves. Around 11 AM Matt was kind enough to go get me a Margarita and he was going to get a tequila sunrise. (Matt: up at the bar one vacationer from the UK asked me “it’s a bit early, eh?” Fortunately the wife was with me; we’re on holiday, we can drink at 11 AM 🙂 Not to mention we’d already been up for hours). Previously when I had tried to get a Margarita I had ended up with a pizza, since then I had been craving the fruity drink. When Matt got back to the table he had a huge grin and was carrying his tequila sunrise and something in a martini glass, I knew instantly that the martini was my margarita. The drink really wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be. Matt said the woman had filled the glass with tequila and he was afraid it would be extremely strong. Lucky for us she used good alcohol so it was a very smooth drink.
As we sat sipping our drinks the pool became more crowded and we realized it was around lunch time. Matt headed back to the apartment to make tortellini’s (what an amazing husband) and I followed shortly after. We rested, out of the sun, for an hour and a half and then went back to the pool, where we remained until around four.
Matt and I knew that there was no internet connection in our apartment so until now we had been sending emails from an internet cafe in Hersonissos. We decided to ask the front desk if there was an internet connection anywhere in the resort. Happily they informed us that they had wireless in one room in and all we had to do was buy a card to connect. For only six euro’s we could have two hours of wireless internet and finally update our travel blog. We were ecstatic.
We sat in the room and updated the webpage for an hour and decided to head back to the room. We cooked up some traditional Greek sausages we’d picked up at the supermarket. We don’t know exactly what they were (and hope to find out when we get back), but ewww. They were pretty bland, had a thick casing, and were not especially good. We each ate one and had another half bologna sandwich each. By then it was time for bed.
matt & andrea 