Ferry Ride of Fun!

Easter!

The next day we packed our bags and headed to the for our ferry to Patras in Greece.  Although the boat was much more modern and fancy than any of the ships in the B.C. Ferries fleet their loading system was horrible.  The route we were taking from Venice to Patras, Grease is mostly used by truck drivers so that means the loading crew was used to big tractor trailers rather than people like us in our cube-like Kangoo. So that resulted in our being squished down in the bottom deck in the very front of the ship. Since we were at the very bottom we had to go up and down 7 flights of stairs every time we wanted something in our car, and being incredibly unfit  people it's not fun at all. So after unloading everything we needed and lugging it up stairs,  they announced that we were going to be delayed 2 extra hours.

#nofilter

After getting under way and settling in our small cabin that didn't smell that nice, we set up camp using one of our air mattresses we bought in Germany on the deck. We happened to sit right outside the place where the kitchen staff comes to smoke, but there was a nice breeze to waft away any horrible smells. Over time one of the cooks came out, smiled and gave us multiple giant sweet bread buns. He probably thought we were sleeping on the deck because some people were.  We ended up watching James Bond "Casino Royale" because there is a scene in Venice near the end.  Then we all went to bed. Bella was a little excited because the next day was Easter.

 such wind

When Bella woke up she was greeted with chocolate eggs in her bed  which resulted in squeals of excitement that woke the rest of us up. She also had a mini hunt around our cabin. Around noon that day we stopped at Igoumenitsa to off load some trucks and then it was 8 hours more to Patras.

We finally arrived at Patras around midnight and since our car was in the very front of the ship on the bottom deck and the exit to the ship was in the back, we would have to wait for all of the trucks to get off before us.  Since the deck crew was horribly uncoordinated and just bad at their job it took ages to get our car off the ship. By the time we loaded up again and were ready to go it was about 1:30 in morning and we were all tired. We got to our hotel which was near by and crashed.