Chania, Crete

My parents have been staying in Athens, for the past week but I haven't gotten to do much with them. It's the end of the school year, and there are a lot of assignments and tests to study for. Even with the time crunch, we decided to go to Crete for the weekend. We were late as usual, and as we sat in the city traffic we started to get worried that we might not make the flight. At the Athens airport my dad creates a concerned look on his face and says, "oops I forgot to bring my passport", this freaks me out because then I realized that I didn't have my passport either! We both looked at my mom who was across the terminal running around in panic, trying to find the check in counter. For a second we laugh but then we get serious and hurry towards my mom. As we rushed over, my dad tells me, "well if they don’t let us go without our passports, it will be an adventure and we can always go touring in Athens.” I see my mom holding her passport and start to panic even more. It turns out we didn’t need our passports, all we had to do was show my school ID. We got through security, which only took about 3 minutes, and finally made it to the gate. The line was still pretty long so we sat down, after a while I realized that I was missing my boarding pass. I had left it at a food stand right next to our gate. My dad went over to get it but then they said they had passed it over to our gate. We got in line and when it was our turn we asked about my boarding pass, they didn’t have it. I handed the attendant my student ID and she checked on her computer and just let me onto the plane. I found it interesting and rather funny because it was my first flight ever to be traveling without my passport or my boarding pass. :)

We arrived at the hotel in Chania, around 12:50. There was no check in or name conformation again, we were just given our room, I guess everyone’s pretty laid back. The streets were still filled with people and they were all eating dinner!!! In Athens I would always hear the loud nightlife, but I had never experienced walking on the streets. There were even families and older couples enjoying a post-midnight meal in the calmer restaurants. Apparently fridays nights are the day everyone goes out with their friends or parties. The restaurants were open until 1-3 am. I was tempted to sit down and order something just to experience having a post-midnight meal at a restaurant in Chania. I was not at all hungry and so I ended up just observing. We walked to the port which reminded me much of Tokyo Disney Sea, in Japan. The only difference was that there was a lot of party music. Even in the darkness of the night, you could see right to the bottom of the ocean water whenever the streetlights reflected across. The water was as clear as glass. We got back to our room our 2:30 am and finally fell asleep.

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