Fried electronics

I can't believe I haven't blogged about this yet, because it's the one thing that is making Greece so frustrating. I have fried pretty much all of my electronics already, I'm horrible with technology. I let my friend borrow my router for wifi in his room, but he didn't convert it, he only adapted it...so that one isn't my fault. He bought me a new router but as I said, I'm horrible with technology. So I've tried setting it up like 50 times, but it's not working with myipad. It will work with my computer, but hey, next thing that fried. I don't even know what happened, I unplugged it from my computer and my whole room went out. So that was donezo. Then I forgot to change my adapter to converter when I plugged my straightener in, so that literally melted. So, I have no Internet access unless I borrow someone's computer, their charger, or if I'm on campus. Hoofta my mom sent me a new charger, so hopefully that will be here soon so I can put up pictures from this weekend!

First we went to ionnina, we left at 745 am, it was horrible. 3 hour ride, but I slept the whole way. When we got there, we went into the caves. They were all naturally made, it was so cool in there. I was expecting it to be freezing there too, but it was humid, the caves stay at a regular humid temperature year round. Then we went to stay in metsovo for the night. It was this cute little (I mean little!) town in the mountains. It was so pretty there, and so romantic, haha. We went out to eat together as a group that night, i had sausage that was apparently bred and made there. Kind a grossed me out thinking that I ate a pig that they knew and slaughtered...We left for meteora the next morning, only an hour and a half drive (eau Claire distance from home, so I'm used to it). Driving up the mountains was so scary, such a large bus with such narrow, winding roads! Props to the bus driver for not going off a cliff...the first place we went to I had to pee so bad, and all they have at the monasteries are Turkish style bathrooms...aka you squat over a hole in the ground. It was disgusting. And hard, considering we had to wear skirts there (no pants allowed for girls). The view from there was beautiful, I wish I could live there! The nuns that live there have 8 hours of free time (pretty much sleep!), 8 hours of work, and 8 hours of praying, so with a life like that, they deserve a gorgeous view! The monasteries looked like they were floating on top of the world, it was amazing. We had to walk up 200 or so steps just to get in. They also keep all of the bodies of the old monks there, aka, all their skulls are kept in a room. Gross.

Anyway, that's my trip. Now I'm going to get my bus ticket for Istanbul this weekend. I'm trying to research info about Istanbul, so I know where to go and everything!