Exhausted but giddy, we boarded the ferry back to Athens. Plan was simple hang out at the deck for a beer, then off to sleep in the cabin. Panagiotis and Mihalis both had to work at 8am that morning, so they had to get some rest. I even left my guitar and amp in the car, not thinking there was any reason to play. I was wrong. We later had to fake a medical emergency to let us go to the hull with a sailor to retrieve it.
It all started when two attractive women sat at the deck table in front of us. Plans, schmlans, challenge accepted. I got the assignment of initiating contact and getting them to join up tables. It worked, and soon we got rowdy, loud, and buzzed. The entire deck crowd kept looking over, wishing they could join. Two older women at the next table did. They were in their mid-80's (!), with hair out of Hairspray, dressed to the nines, Canadian Greeks, both great grandmothers. They kept laughing and leaning over, until they literally bought their way in - went to the kiosk, got two bottles of ouzo and snacks, put them on our table, and said, Keep it rolling! Despite their voices deeply scarred by nearly a century of tobacco smoking, they were presentable and fun and therefore I dubbed them...GGILF's!! Well, not for me sickos, but someone's grandpa would.
Once I retrieved the guitar and amp, the party really got started. For the next five hours, we worked through most of two binders of songs I had brought, alternating between me singing and the Bulgarian Londoner, who was quite a good vocalist. We also plugged in iphones to the amp, singing and dancing along when not performing ourselves. By 3am, the crowd and the ggilf's had scattered, gone inside to sleep, and we were finally the only ones left on deck. We went at it strong another two hours.
Then, all six of us piled up in our cabin for a 90min nap, left the boat in my tiny car, and dropped off my friends one each. I brought the girls to my house where better beds awaited our immediate collapse. After a good sleep, warm showers and a nice lunch, took them to the airport.
As Mihalis had prophetically said before we boarded that ferry, the trip is not over until we are home.
It all started when two attractive women sat at the deck table in front of us. Plans, schmlans, challenge accepted. I got the assignment of initiating contact and getting them to join up tables. It worked, and soon we got rowdy, loud, and buzzed. The entire deck crowd kept looking over, wishing they could join. Two older women at the next table did. They were in their mid-80's (!), with hair out of Hairspray, dressed to the nines, Canadian Greeks, both great grandmothers. They kept laughing and leaning over, until they literally bought their way in - went to the kiosk, got two bottles of ouzo and snacks, put them on our table, and said, Keep it rolling! Despite their voices deeply scarred by nearly a century of tobacco smoking, they were presentable and fun and therefore I dubbed them...GGILF's!! Well, not for me sickos, but someone's grandpa would.
Once I retrieved the guitar and amp, the party really got started. For the next five hours, we worked through most of two binders of songs I had brought, alternating between me singing and the Bulgarian Londoner, who was quite a good vocalist. We also plugged in iphones to the amp, singing and dancing along when not performing ourselves. By 3am, the crowd and the ggilf's had scattered, gone inside to sleep, and we were finally the only ones left on deck. We went at it strong another two hours.
Then, all six of us piled up in our cabin for a 90min nap, left the boat in my tiny car, and dropped off my friends one each. I brought the girls to my house where better beds awaited our immediate collapse. After a good sleep, warm showers and a nice lunch, took them to the airport.
As Mihalis had prophetically said before we boarded that ferry, the trip is not over until we are home.
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Probably more like cliff notes. I should do that sometime. ha ha. Loads got deleted because the company reads blogs. Likely not this one, but no chances taken. I need to cull through them all and make sure I have information wiped out. I have not fully finished yet. One project after another.
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Looking forward for more adventure stories