When I blogged last night, I’d totally forgotten that we’d gotten tickets to visit Aegina this morning. We were supposed to visit the island in our Saronic Island Hop, but the touring company visited Aegina after Hydra rather than before, as Chungy was led to believe, and we already had hotel reservations in Hydra and couldn’t exactly leave.

So that brings us to today! Now, first off, Chungy and I have very different ideas of how one travels. She plans exactly how much time a certain thing requires and then crams in as much sleep time as possible. I, on the other hand, prefer to move at a more leisurely pace, and give my travel plans plenty of padding. In this morning’s mad rush (we go by Chungy-time, to my chagrin), I realized that my digital camera wasn’t in my big camera bag. I did a quick scouring of the house and quickly found it, juggled my stuff in order, and ran. It wasn’t until we were on the train to Piraeus (Athens’ port) that I noticed that my digital camera was still not in my camera bag.

I was fairly sure that I must have just left it on the bed when I was juggling all the rest of my stuff, but as I didn’t remember seeing it in my cursory glance around the room before running off to catch the train. As we rode further and further from the house, blind panic and visions of worst case scenarios won over common sense. We scrapped our Aegina plans (my two minutes of searching had apparently pushed us into “we might not make the boat anyway” territory, cough cough) and went back to Chungy’s cousin’s house in Kiffisia, a Northern suburb of Athens, to put my fears to rest.

As we both expected, it was there on the bed all along. It had been covered up by the umbrella I decided not to bring. So instead of visiting Aegina, we’ll be doing what I wrote we’d do in my blog anyway! Today, we take Athens! Chungy is going to take a short run while I pore over the travel books I finally have access to, now that I have my bag back, and pick out what we should see. Then I’ll drop off my film to be developed, and we’ll be off!

In a way, I’m glad this happened. I’m sure Aegina would have been awesome (I saw pictures of the Temple of Athena–I would have loved to visit), but it would have meant two hours of boat travel each way, and we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to really investigate Athens. So yay for my absentmindedness and paranoia, and yay for Chungy’s down-to-the-wire system of travel planning!