RE-DO

I realized the last post was difficult to read, so I'm re-posting it with new font


Yesterday we spent the entire day on a hot sweaty bus for 8 hours driving down the coast and through the mountainside of Albania. we stopped at a little restaurant for lunch in the middle of nowhere where we ate all kinds of things like vertebrae, brains, and some kind of mash of organs.  the salad was good though. 

oh I forgot to describe our night in Tirana, the capital- during the day we wandered around the streets in and out of a few museums looking at all the really cool artifacts and buying the freshest fruit  Oh and were bombarded by little boys trying to sell us 1 euro gum. Later that night we had dinner at a little outdoor cafe place where we all ate some form of a crepe and drank very cheap beer. Afterward we ended up at a bar at the very top floor of this hotel building thumping with house techno music- EVERYONE in the club turned to look at us, every single person. So we ordered drinks, waited an obscene amount of time and then proceeded to dance like crazyheads on the floor-which happened to be some kind of bouncy thing so we were flying in the air- SO FUN. THEN all this old American rock and roll and ACDC started playing and everyone was headbanging and playing air guitar-I wonder why. then we were invited to participate in the traditional dance-basically holding hands and hopping around in a circle-really really cool. anyway we were drenched in sweat and made our way back to the hotel laughing about how crazy all the dancing was.

So anyway after the sweaty bus ride we were greeted by friendly hotel staff, and a GIGANTIC DINNER. SO GOOD. SO MUCH FOOD.  This hotel is much nicer and absolutely beautiful, we overlook an inlet from the ionian sea with hills and tiny houses.  There are castles all over and it is so warm!! however I think my count for bug bites is around 35-38.

Today we explored the national park literally right next door filled with roman, greek and byzantine ruins.  we climbed castle walls and saw a necropolis. I will post pics asap but there is unfortunately no internet. in any case I will continue later with more details of my anthropological adventures but this is it for now :]