Third Day Roundup

Crazy day yesterday – We went to that taverna I took some pictures of. Wow, what a great place. There is also an outdoor pool which Voula told me the parents send their kids to in the summer. Kids swim, parents eat – genius.

Then we went home. Leaving the parking lot, I witnessed a truly spectacular marital spat / high stress moment. Imagine you're an 84 year old man, and your 62 year old wife took the keys away from you a few years ago, so you can't drive. Now, imagine that, although you are 84, you know your wife is not a very good driver. Now, imagine that your wife gets her car stuck in a Greek taverna leaving the lot so that owners of another car must be found in the restaurant so that they can come move their car.

I don't mind telling you that I thought a walk would do me good after that high stress experience. Aris says he's worried Papou will have a heart attack from stress about his younger son. Parking stress was enough to give me a heart attack…

So, I went to the local 24 hour Internet café a few blocks away. On Saturday night. I think I would have been pretty happy to have an internet café as a kid. It provides a social structure for geeks, and a place for them to go. There were even a few girls (I think just updating myspace pages, they left quickly). The boys played and played. I got there at 11 pm, and stayed until 3:30. Greek teenagers came up to me, quite friendly, and asked things like "What Server?" referring to the World of Warcraft server I was playing on.

I inhaled about a pack of cigarettes due to secondhand smoke (really, my throat is raw this morning), my clothes smell like ass, and I've memorized the 200 ways that greek teens can use "Malakas" with each other during repeated matches of counterstrike.

I must apologize, dear reader for not getting a picture of this stellar 24 hour location – its beautiful purple-hued lights will need to remain a picture only in your mind.