The Younger Sisters' Five Week Journey Through Europe

This is it, the end of our amazing journey, five weeks, five countries, lots of great memories. Our flight from Athens left at 6am. Which is why the picture to the left we look a little tired. We flew from Athens to Frankfurt, Germany, so technically we visited 6 countries if you count the airport. Then we flew from Frankfurt to London. In London we had almost a 4 hour layover so we did some last min souvenir shopping and had some lunch/dinner. Our flight from London left at 2:10pm on October 4 (London time) and arrived at 5:15pm, only 3 hours later, ha no, 11 hours later we were in San Francisco. My parents drove down to pick us up from the airport so they could spend time with Jen before she headed back to Australia. We had planned that she would have a day in San Francisco before we both flew out October 6th for Idaho and Australia. When we arrived in San Francisco it was dinner time, for us it was around 2am, but whatever time it was we were hungry. We went to In and Out (my da...

Today was our last full day in Europe. We took the bus into Athens (a 30min ride) and then found our way to the start of the Hop on Hop off bus. On our way to the stop we ran into a lot of police dressed in full riot gear. We had no idea what was going on. According to CNN, "Greek Golden Dawn lawmaker Christos Pappas is escorted to a court in Athens on October 3, 2013. Pappas, the second most powerful figure in Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party was taken into custody after he was charged with helping to run a criminal organization" ( http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/07/business/greeces-golden-dawn-firebrand-right-wingers/index.html )  and the police were out in the streets to make sure protesters didn't get out of hand. It was pretty scary. But we made it to the hop on hop off bus.  We were both pretty sick with head colds and it was a little chilly in Athens that day, so we spent most of the time on the bus. I think we only got off on two stops. Omonia square was one...

Today we had about 3/4 of the day to spend in Fira, then we were on our way to Athens. Our last stop before heading home. We had breakfast on the balcony one last time, packed up and checked out of our hotel. They let us keep our suitcase and my wheel chair at the front desk until it was time to go to the airport. We did a little more shopping, had one last Souvlaki, (YUM!), wrote some post cards and got some stamps to mail them. If I promised you a post card on our journey I hope you got one, and I probably sent it from Santorini. We left for the bus stop with plenty of time to get to the airport, and thank goodness we did. When we went to get on the bus, it was hard to figure out which one was going where. There was an greek man yelling out, what I thought was, "airport." We got on, then the bus started going down the island, I knew something was wrong because the airport was definitely on the top of the island and we were headed down to the water. We asked and r...

When we woke up this morning the sky was cloudy and it was sprinkling a little. We were a little bummed because we had plans to go to the town of Oia today and had reservations at one of the best restaurants to watch the famous Santorini sunsets. We prayed that it would clear by sunset and by the time we got to Oia the sky was blue and beautiful. We rode the bus from Fira to Oia (pronounced EE-a), about a 30 min ride. Oia is known for the best sunset views on the island and when you see pictures of Greece, espcially Santorini, they are usually pictures of Oia, with its white washed buildings with bright blue rooftops. Oia was also the location that scene in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was filmed.  We spent the day walking around, shopping and taking lots of pictures, before our evening reservations for dinner and watching the sunset. Here's some pictures of Oia. Love my beautiful sister! Oia has many steps, especially if you a...