Busy Weekends!

I have so much to write but so little energy left to write it!


We have a few busy (more-so than usual) weeks coming up... Tomorrow we're catching the ferry at 6:30am and heading to Olympia! We'll check out the actual archaeological site first and then have a lunch break (aka time to buy souvenirs) followed by a trip to the museum! I think... I'm really not all that excited about museums. Which is sad, really. They hold so much HISTORY. Somehow... I still find them mostly boring. Le sigh.

Anyway. Geoffrey's taking us out for dinner in Pylos, which is where we'll be sleeping (not at the restaurant -- in Pylos) aaand then on Sunday we're checking out the Palace of Nestor and another castle before heading back to Poros!

It's thanksgiving this weekend so on Tuesday (the only day that we don't have class or pottery washing in the late afternoon), we're all getting together for a potluck dinner to celebrate!

We're going to try (again) to have a BBQ on the site on Wednesday or Thursday afternoon and then Thursday when the dig is done... it's the start of our long-weekend/mid-term break! I'm not sure what I'm doing yet... A few of us were hoping to check out the island just south of us (Zakynthos) and it looked like it would work out PERFECTLY (and quite inexpensive!) but now we're not sure that the hotel (the only one in the town where we wanted to go) is even open in mid-October. They've got prices listed for October... but some of the other hotels on the island have prices listed for October as well and they've already closed. Bah!

Either way... at least it should be a relaxing weekend. The weather's supposed to remain hot and sunny from now 'til the end of the lunar month. The farmers here have told our prof that when a new weather front comes in on the same day as a new moon, the weather stays that way until the next one. So far their predictions have been correct! Hurrah!

Not too much else to write about for now...

The cat (Rio) that was kind of adopted by our group (some people actually paid to get some antibiotics for this cat because it had a respiratory infection) was hit by a car and died last night. We (Leesa, Michelle and I) found it last night on our way to dinner. Apparently they'd (Nela and Brayden) JUST given it its medication only 15-20 minutes before we found it. It was particularly hard on Leesa -- she'd actually been looking into the cost of bringing it back to Canada. Good thing that none of us actually saw it get hit. That would have been REALLY bad.

Anyway -- it kind of put a damper on the rest of the evening. We've still got Lola (a dog we've also sort of adopted) but now we're all scared that she'll get hit by a car too since all the animals here just wander all over the town (on the roads) all the time and it gets really busy when the ferries come in.

On a happier note... I made fish for dinner last night and it was INCREDIBLE!!! Seriously. I was surprised by how well it turned out. Shocked even. I used an egg and instant-potato mix to make a batter (I didn't have flour and the crackers I bought to use are actually really good crackers so I didn't want to waste them on batter...) and fried 'em up in olive oil with a little salt. Add a little lemon before digging in and and VOILA! Heaven on a plate.


Time to head out -- I want to enjoy what's left of the sunshine today before it sets! Will write more updates when we return from Olympia and Pylos!