A Series of Fortunate Mistakes: What Doesn't Kill Us Only Makes It a Better Story

Not sure what Kendra was posing for here, but they were all standing on a wall, and with the tree behind them in full bloom... I had to take the shot.

This is either really bizarre yoga, or else just proof that we're all a bit crazy.

And here is where you can begin to get jealous. We spent the weekend in Ayia Napa in a hotel almost identical to the one in Pafos, but this time I roomed with Alana and Reg (two out of three of my regular roomies, one of the Sam's, and Ashley didn't room with us, but she ended up sleeping with us. That happened a lot that weekend: room assignments just meant that's the room your stuff was stored in, but which bed you slept in was decided by who helped you home from the bar, or how far you got by yourself before deciding that that was close enough. We were a short walk from Nissi beach, which is where all the beach pictures are from. That's where most of our time was spent. Some people went parachuting, others went cliff diving (although we never made it to the REAL cliffs to jump. Bummer, but we more than made up for it with the other stuff.)

These things scared the crap out of us. They just appeared out oT nowhere, and we looked over and BAM! there they were! You'll see in the second picture, where you can see a woman standing next to them, that they're HUGE. They don't care that you're there, either. They walked right over my towel, and continued on their way down the beach.

It was a bit chilly, but amazing. And salty. I'm pretty sure that I ended up swallowing enough saltwater to flavor my food for the rest of my life, and it burned my eyes so badly that I thought I'd go blind.

This is one of the only pictures I took of anyone chilling on the beach, because the first day we got there in the afternoon, so didn't get much sun, but the whole next day, as people recovered from their hangovers (story coming in a minute), at least half of GLS took advantage of the fact that it was a topless beach, so no pictures. (That's Bubby, Will and Dave)

Ayia Napa was where Regina and I got to know James better, which was a giant case of "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL SEMESTER?!" He's a riot. As you've already seen, he's a great diving board, but what you might not know is that he's better at handstands than Regina:

And that he spent most of the weekend tossing Reg and I around... whether we were willing or no. Not going to lie, it was a ton of fun. I miss him :(

Claire showed off her under-water camera

One of the nights, we had a sort of slumber-party on the roof of one of the buildings (yeah, that's kind of our thing) with the Bethel boys (Reid and James... I don't remember if Brendan was there or not) and Reg, Ali, me, and at least two or three other girls, but I don't have any good pictures of it yet. It ended near 3am because James and I were both still awake, and a cement roof isn't all that comfy, so we ended up waking everyone up and shuffling off to bed.

And this is the typical scene in our room (wherever we were all semester): everyone getting ready for a night out. Alright, parents and adult-figures should probably stop reading at this point. You've been warned. Plus I'm over 21, so it's kind of allowed.

We went out first to Senior Frogs, which serves alcohol in a fishbowl with a ton of straws for 15 Euro. That's 5500ml per fishbowl. Between the 20 or so of us who went out, there were 6 fishbowls, 4 drinks-by-the-yard, and half a dozen individual drinks. Then we went to the second bar. I ended up being the designated-walker, escorting two of the girls home after the night of drunken debauchery. Towing one girl home by the hand and begging the other to stop yelling at the random people still out on the street, I must have looked like a very harrassed camp counselor. I kind of felt like one. I had to hold their hands to cross the street, and at one point, it lapsed into a performance of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." I was carrying Lindsey's purse and shoes, holding her by the hand, I had to unlock their door and put them to bed. Funniest walk I've ever been on. I miss those girls too :( My roomies (and Ashley, whom I didn't know was rooming with me and Reg until I woke up the next morning and rolled over) came home much later, but I didn't hear a thing. Great night.