Pineapple Whiskey Weekend

The fist weekend in October was our first official free weekend since moving to Greece
On Friday, Diana, Erin and I went shopping for like 5 hours and walked around town looking for a place that sold harem/genie pants. i got the coolest harem/genie pants at a store we dubbed harem city because it had so many varieties. and some safari looking pants near a place we called cat call alley because as we walked by there were many men trying to get out attention. creepers!!!! and the h & m  here is a fail. i wasn’t tempted in any way to waste money and that is the mark of a failure h & m. They don’t even have sales racks in Europe  =(. At my new favorite store BERSHKA , i got and the coolest dress/tunic…..that can be either. It looks like a toga, so i thought it was fitting to get here in Greece. And i absolutely love it. oh and i got my nose pierced = ) Granted this is the biggest part of that Friday.

Erin and i were walking to the tattoo shop to find out how much things would cost and apparently getting holes in yourself and tattoos are really cheap in Europe. The whole process to get the nose piercing was weird though. I bought my stud at one Nico store. Had to walk up the square to another to get my piercing done. We stopped at the second Nico store we saw and apparently that was the tattoo Nico store. Then we finally found the last one where i could get my piercing. The whole time all i could think was that a person could definitely change their mind as they walked from one store to the other….and would only have a random nose stud  and an unpierced nose to show for it. The total cost of my piercing and stud 14 Euros = $20 and i knew i was going to be coming back for my ears

At the end of the day i had no more cash meaning i spent about 85 Euros and was broke which meant someone else covered my drinks at the bar.

Later that night we went to our favorite bar, the music room, again we’re the only ones in there. We got the name of the owner, Stavros and the bartender, Leonidas. Like in the movie 300 but we were soon corrected that the movie is after the Greek Leonidas……i didn’t care that much i just thought Leonidas was a cool name. We got our drink, two pineapple and vodkas and a rum and coke. And the night of relaxing began.

Then Stavros pours five shots of pineapple whiskey and randomly placed it in front of us. I thought it was weird but when him and Leonidas also took up a glass i grabbed mine too. He wouldn't drug us all. Lol. It was free and it was delicious too.

Then we got a second round and then a  strange old man came in with a young woman. Like he was probably in his 60s and she in her 20s.  She was black and i was excited to see another black person and told her i loved her braids….which i sincerely meant. Then the old man proudly told us all in a weird combination of English, Greek and Italian that she was Jamaican. Okkaaay…..  After that he attempted to speak to us but no one understood the weird  combination of Greek and Italian so conversation was interesting although Leonidas who knows no Italian managed to find a way to translated for us.

The highlight of the night was when the old man bought us a round of drinks. We weren’t going to say no. But then he went outside with his woman and we didn’t think we were getting the drinks. Diana was on duty so she had to leave but as she was about to leave leonidas brought her the drink the old man had bought her. She had to rush it so she could leave but I'm pretty sure she was late for rounds by like 30 minutes. lol. Its all good, it wasn’t like we were going to report her.

Erin and i chilled. got our third drinks and then the old man and his woman came back in and started shouting. All we could hear was the girl shouting “WHO’S YOUR FRIEND?” we finished our drinks and left quickly. Considering that we were both broke we  walked back along the boardwalk which took us over an hour  to walk.

 

Of course we were kind of buzzed and had to pee. We peed into the ocean and speaking for me  it was very liberating. lol. Then we got back to Erin’s building and hung out with students while buzzed. Our conversation was very interesting and they never knew.

i got back to my room around 2 am, happy as a clam at how much fun i had = )