We're not in Rockport anymore.

I have no idea what time it is. Okay, that's a lie, my computer says 12:48 so I assume it's about 7:48 local time? We're GMT+2...whatever that means. What a day, today. Rob comes into the room at 2:30pm like gangbusters while I'm sleeping with earplugs and an eye-mask (it gets bright here!) and drags me to the beach. Yeah, 'drags.' A beach where attractive girls outnumber attractive guys 3-to-1, at a minimum. By 2:45pm I'm playing in my first of three (six in total on the day) games of beach volleyball. In between the games I'm swimming in the Aegean Sea and being looked down upon by Mount Olympus which is about which is less than 40 km away (do your own conversion). And of course by 'swimming,' I mean 'floating,' because there was nothing strenuous about it. Oh, and the water is maybe 85 degrees? Have I mentioned how nice it is here? The one negative was that there was an abundance of seaweed and too many jellyfish for my liking. But it beats choosing between Scylla and Charybdis, no? Ten points if you get that reference. I was about to say I didn't see a single guy in a speedo all day, and of course, just now, sitting down with my laptop on some random sidestreet outside my hotel I see a guy walking around in just about the most revealing thing I've ever seen. Devastating. There goes another one. I shit you not. Now there goes a kid in one. Come on Mom and Dad. Do they have a DCF in Greece??

Well, the exchange rate is killing me. Freakin' Euro. Food is expensive (edit: food was cheap; everything else was expensive, especially drinks). Everything is, really. But dinner seems to be the only meal people eat around here, and that's after an entire day at the beach. Oh well. Life has it's little challenges. Time to go find myself another gyro. I would imagine these little blurbs are going to slow down since nowbody wants to read/write about the same beach activities over and over. But believe me when I say experiencing them over and over isn't all that bad. I'm excited for Scandinavia, but I'm in no rush.

N.B. I forgot two important things from yesterday. The first one is that we saw gypsies on our train. They had so much shit with them it took them five expletive-laden (Greek expletives are so much more entertaining) trips just to load everything on. What a riot. I was going to take a picture, but I didn't want my camera stolen/smacked out of my hands. The second thing was I tried my first gyro...at three in the morning. That thing is going straight to my thighs. I was also offered a hard-boiled egg at four in the morning by the creepy "overnight" guy at the hotel (I put "overnight" in quotes because there's literally nothing for him to do). I think he was watching fuzzy porno in the lounge when I came in (since the internet signal isn't strong enough to reach our top floor room). Very bizarre.