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Published: November 22nd 2011
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I set the alarm for 8:00am so we could meet Papous in Grevena since he was going there to get his car fixed. Eventually we got up around 8:30 after repeatedly hitting snooze! Steve kept calling Papous but there was no answer.Finally Theo Kostas answered and told us that Papous had forgotten his phone at home in Megaro.By the time we found this out we were in Grevena and stopped to get some more cold medicine and then went and got some breakfast of some pretty delicious toast sandwiches. We met Theo Kostas at the bus station and he drove us to the repair shop where Papous was.Papous car was done by this time so Rachel hopped in Papous car and Theo Kostas dropped Steve and I back off at the Nissan on the other side of Grevena.We followed Papous to get gas and then he had to pick up some cement.
Then we all drove up to Megaro, Papous village.Theo Kostas (Uncle Charlie) and Papous gave us a tour of the village including the school, one of the churches, the place where Papous house used to be and the plateia.We stopped and said hello to Steve's cousin Saki’s mom.Then
went to Thea Koula’s house and had a snack of figs in syrup and cake.Thea Koula’s husband, Theo Gianni was there too.Steve talked to Saki when we were at his mom’s house and since he was already in Grevena, we arranged to meet him and his fiancé there.
We met them near the bus station and walked back to the square near where we had breakfast that morning.The place we went was a rock bar.We had a drink and talked for a couple hours.Saki and his fiancé want to get married next year and honeymoon in the US. Actually in Las Vegas!
Next was some mundane stuff, we stopped at the Lidl supermarket in Grevena on the way back to Mikrokastro and picked up breakfast foods, some pasta and chicken and a bunch of other random snacks and sundries. By the time we got to Mikrokastro we were starving so Steve and I threw some pasta, chicken and sauce together plus a village salad with tomatoes from Theo Thanasi’s garden.It was pretty tasty given that there were very limited spices at the house.
Xristos called and invited us to Mythos which is a bar in the village,
but first we took the net book over to Steve's aunt Papadia’s house and showed her how to use Skype so she could talk to her daughter Stella who lives in Michegan. We all said hi to Stella during the test calls too.I used the internet while we were there and Rachel and I talked with Mikhaeli who is doing his mandatory military service and is home on leave.
When we left Papadia’s house we passed Xristo's wife Kaliope and daughter Theodora walking towards Papadia’s.We picked up Theodora and Kaliope met us at Mythos later.Their other daughter Konstantina was there too.We hung out there for a few hours and many Gordon Spaces and several shots later we headed back to the house for some much needed sleep!
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