Pink Palace

Greetings from Corfu, Greece!!! We're finally here, and lordy was it a struggle to make it.
On our last night in London we popped down to the half price ticket office in Leicester Square and managed to score some tickets to Wicked for about $100 each. So off we went for an absolutely amazing show. I can't imagine how great it would've been to see the original cast. Our Glinda was ok, but our Elphaba was incredible. All in all a great show and I'd definitely recommend any visitors to London or New York to go, regardless of the price. We stopped to have some dinner and made it back to our hostel around midnight. We had a mad midnight dash to every souvenir shop we could find when we discovered the transformer we brought with us wasn't compatible with 3-pronged plugs, so to charge the laptop we needed to buy a 3-prong Canadian to England adaptor, then get a 2-prong England to Canada adaptor, then plug that into our power transformer, and then put the European plug on the end of that. The thing is a beast and I'm convinced that at any moment there's going to be sparks and a suspicious burning smell and the computer is going to be fried, but that has thus far not happened (knock wood!).
Our flight left Gatwick at 6am, so we had to leave our hostel at 3 to make it there. We passed out for just a bit too long of a nap and found ourselves sprinting through the streets of London to make the 3:22am bus to the train station. We ran up on the bus stop just as it was pulling in. And lucky we did, because that flight brought us somewhere that is so great!
We're staying in Corfu at the Pink Palace (check the website if you'd like a taste of what our weekend is going to be like www.pinkpalace.com). It is undeniably a party hostel, with 3 bars, 2 restaurants, and staff that 3 minutes ago pulled me and steph aside to have someone pour ouzo down our throats straight from the bottle, whether we wanted to or not. There are maybe 5 guys for every girl, and of those guys at least 4 are Italian. We are being leered at from all sides, but luckily the language barrier means they're leaving us alone. We get free breakfast and dinner and its decent, the drinks are cheap, and the rooms are clean. Our first day was spent napping, beaching, and being generally useless. We made it out for dinner at 8:30 and met a few really great people, 2 American guys who were sharing our room, and a couple from London. The 6 of us bought 4 boxes of wine (1.5L each...for 3 euros each....uh oh) and sat on the roof of the beach-front bar for a couple of hours. It got VERY MESSY. Steph and I stumbled home around 4 when the complete lack of sleep caught up with us, and I have no idea what happened to the Americans, as they are now gone. Poor guys are probably on the worst ferry ride of their lives right now.
Today was a lazy beachy day, we're already working on some serious tans. Tonight we're planning on taking it easy (if we can avoid the staff) because we have a booze cruise leaving at the crack of noon tomorrow that takes us around the island, cliff jumping, snorkling, and drinking. On Saturday nights they have a toga party here with plate breaking, ouzo drinking, and Greek dancers. Its 12 euros to get in, which includes your very own pink silk toga!! Then on Sunday we're heading to Santorini to hook up with Steph's boyfriend and his family for a couple of nights. In fact I should sign off and book our ferry now!!