Life as a beach

So, today we arrived in Athens, where a friend of mine is going to compete in a Crossfit competition. It was pretty nice to be picked up at the airport by a driver who held a sign with her name up for us to see and took us straight to our apartment at the seaside.
There's the most amazing little park just across the street and you can actually see the Mediterranean Sea from there. Also, the warm weather here makes it feel like summer already. It was so great to enjoy the scent of all different kinds of flowers and trees growing and feel the sun on our skin and then watch the sun go down over the ocean.
The next couple days will be a little more stressful, but in a good way. I'm looking forward to the weekend and watching my friend compete as well as great sunsets over Piraeus.

I Don't Wanna Be Buried..

In a pet cemetery.
Went to watch the remake of Stephen King's Pet Sematary today and let's say... I was surprised. I am still trying to figure out if I was positively or negatively surprised, though. It was definitely a fun flick and it would have been quite boring had it just been a simple remake. But. The poetic freedoms the movie took were slightly weird. Not necessarily bad, but it might rub fans of the original version or the book wrong. I'd love to know what Stephen King himself thinks of the film. I can picture the old weirdo being amused by it. Actually, the tongue-in-cheek ending, as much as it made light of the horror element of the story, was a nice diversion from the whole theme and brought to mind more recent zombie flicks like Zombieland or Warm Bodies. But it cost the movie its scary ending.
Anyhow, it was a fun movie and whenever it did take its turns away from the original storyline, it did so with a wicked wink and some humor.