It was an experience...

It's Sunday already!

FRIDAY after the Troodos trip Carolyn, Briel, and I went out to the local sports bar to hangout for a bit. While we are there a whole bunch of others showed up from the group and we met some locals from the area as well.

While there I played pool twice lost both times, played pong and lost, and then played darts and lost. The dart game was very close however, a loss is still a loss...

 SATURDAY Carolyn and I woke up early to explore with some other GLS members, but with confusion on the meeting spot we ended up not going. We walked back to the apartment and hung out for a bit then went downtown with Meleana for lunch.

We went to a local restaurant where the owner spoke little English. He took us back in the kitchen and told us the few things he had to order. We ended all just ordering the pork due to a language barrier issue. Unfortunately, after Carolyn and i tried 

 our meals Meleana realized there was a bug cooked on her pork. So at that point none of us could stomach finishing our meal. We paid for our food and then left to ease our pain with ice cream and starbucks.

We walked in the old city and found this man dressed as an Egyptian so we decided we needed to take our picture. While we were walking into the ice cream shop a small protest walked by which was a little scary, because people were marching and yelling in Greek and we weren't sure what was happening.

After ice cream we caught the bus back, where the bus driver awkwardly told us to be quiet. He apparently didn't like our conversation about France.

We then came and relaxed for a bit then got ready for dinner with a local named Alexis (surprisingly to avoid confusion Alexis is a boy). After dinner at his uncle's restaurant we went to a dance club for a bit which was nice because at this club people were nice about your personal space and didn't force themselves on you to dance. We didn't stay out to long and came home. Saturday was definitely its own experience.

TODAY has been a lazy catch up on sleep day to prepare for the Superbowl. It is airing tonight at 3AM. So we are going to the sports bar to keep up our American heritage and root on the teams. I am all about the 49ers. They won the world series and it would be so cool if they came home with a Superbowl win! I plan to do the usual, chat during the game, watch the instant replay to moments where people make noise and make sure to not miss the commericials. Yup, typical Superbowl for me I just happen to be in Cyprus to watch it-and it will be the middle of the night....I'll let you know what it goes.