The Amazing Spider-Man: Greek Style

Thursday was the opening night here in Greece for The Amazing Spider-Man movie. So, despite the fact that about half of us had to be up early the next day, a group of us got together and decided to go see the 9 PM showing (which was the earliest, Mom. I'm trying to make good decisions here, I promise!). We decided to go to dinner first at Silly Wizards, which is an Irish pub...at which we had a British waiter...in Greece. Yeah, I don't know, either. Anyway! The food there is delicious, even if it is a little pricey. I had the most delicious nachos I've ever tasted in my life. I do believe it's become one of our new favorite hangouts.

Here's a semi-awkward photo of some of us just hanging out in the pub. Yeah, it's a nice place. And the music was fantastic! It was a lot of Flogging Molly and Celtic Woman sounding tunes. Oddly enough, I very rarely hear Greek music being played in restaurants or grocery stores. It's usually a lot of popular American music, which is odd considering a good number of people don't even speak English. I'm not complaining, though. It's a nice little taste of home.

Anyway, after leaving Silly Wizards way later than we should have, we tried waiting for a bus. We then decided that the bus was taking too long, so we started to run. Then, a bus pulled up, so we turned around and ran BACK to the bus stop and hopped on a B5. We didn't know where it was taking us, but it was going in the general right direction for the theater, so we just went with it. We ended up at the theater, buying tickets, and walking in just as the movie was starting. The theater was outdoors. The atmosphere was really neat, but it was a little hard to see the movie for the first few minutes because the sun wasn't quite down. The movie was great. They had a nice little concession stand in the back with over priced food and drinks. Greek popcorn is much saltier and doesn't have as much butter as American popcorn, and it was delicious.

Besides the fact that the movie had Greek subtitles, the major difference between a movie going experience here and one in America is that right in the middle of the movie, with now warning at all, there was an intermission. It was right during an emotional, tender scene and all of the sudden an advertisement for the snack bar popped up and the lights came on. So, I was up taking advantage of the intermission, when all of the sudden the lights went back down and the movie started playing again. Yeah, no warning at all. So, that was kind of different, but it was a great experience and an awesome movie!