Swimming in the ocean

Well my main concern was how cold the water was going to be.  Getting in initially was - well let's just say hell froze over.  But the actually swimming wasn't bad.  I did come out with no feeling in my hands and my leg cramping.

I expected the swimmers to be fast and strong.  When I signed up I put in the time I thought I did the mile in, and went and checked the other swimmers times.  They were all slower than my time, so I tried to adjust by putting in how much slower I would be from the fastest person.  So I added ten minutes to my time.

So when we got there the divvied us up into slow - medium - fast.  Tatiana was in the medium group and I was in the slow group.  There was only two of us in the slow group and the other one was planning on doing breaststroke.  Argh...I didn't want to swim with a breastroker.  I would die.  But I couldn't very well say I am not swimming with him.

Tatiana was put in with the 70 year old ladies, and the fast group was the young ones (relatively speaking).  So we did an acclimatization swim, to see if we should be in the assigned groups.  When we were done they asked Tatiana and I if we had ever timed ourselves in the kilometer before.  I said no, and she said well you are about 10 minutes off your guess.  I guess I was right to begin with.

The first swim we did was a coastal swim about an hour and a half and I thought if we went any slower we would die from hypothermia.  I was told it wasn't a race, but I didn't expect it to be a crawl.  They told me next time to just circle.  But I am not a backwards kind of girl.  Oh well.  Still massively fun!!!

Greece - crazy ferries

Day 2.  How do people write on iPads?  It takes like five minutes to write a paragraph and it doesn't correct your errors.  Please forgive all typos and any other grammar or spelling errors.  It isn't my fault it is the iPads fault.

Back to the cherries.  Though I did the happy dance, when I went to eat them they tasted like - awful.  I  saw the TSA agent wipe the bag down, but I didn't know what she wiped it down with.  Still don't know but it is nasty tasting and smelling.  I am sure that she was chuckling knowing she ruined my cherrries.

We had a 7:15 ferry to catch so we were up and out of the hotel by six (yes even Ta).  The tickets said we were to load at E7 so the driver dropped us off at E7 at 6:15.  Feeling pretty proud of myself I saw this huge ferry - huge - semis were driving up and into it that had a flashing sign Naxos 7:25.  Our tickets said 7:15, but I just thought maybe 7:15 loading.  I saw passengers walking up with there suitcases and thought what the heck lets just get on.  I walked up to the guy taking the tickets and he smirked at me. Literally smirked.  He took our tickets and said wrong boat.  We asked him where to go and he sent us to the - well I don't know but she didn't speak English.  She directed us to another boat, and I realized that boat was at e 7 to.  Hmm.  We went up to that boat and that one too was going to Naxos, so I handed our tickets to the guy and he said no and handed them back.  By this time I was wondering if I really had tickets or if I had been faked out.  So we went up to a traffic cop and she sent us to another E7 gate.  However that one was the *right* and we directed to our seats.  The rest of the trip went smashingly well.  Well the ferry ride did.