Fishing Trip

Along with womens volleyball the city of Limassol has a few men's teams. On the men's team that is associated with my team there are 4 foriegners, 2 from Venezuala, one from Russia and one from Estonia. They all speak English and are fun, nice guys. Usually in the morning me and the other foreigner on my team, Svetlana, practice with the foreigners from the men's team. Most of the time they try not to kill us when they hit. Most of the time. There is another mens team that uses the same gym that we do and they have 2 foreigners from Canada, Steven and Pascal. The first day that I met them they told me they had just downloaded the newest episode of The Office, needless to say we were fast friends. So when Steven's friend came to visit they planned a fishing trip and asked if I wanted to go along. Of course I said yes. Any chance to get out of the hotel and I was goin to take it! So we woke up early and headed out to the docks. We really didnt know what to expect but as soon as we stepped on the boat the captain was really cool. Captain Angelos and his son Gregory made us coffee and we had a lil breakfeast and then we started fishing right away. Ok so I have fished a few times before and figured I would do fine but then when you go fishing with Canadians its a different story. Apparently they go fishing alot. But i was the second one to catch a fish! But they were just warming up. By the end of the day each Canadian had about 15 fish to their name while I came up with 5. Ha! Its a lot harder than it looks. Not only did we go fishing for fish but we also were trying to catch octopus. We ended up catching 4 of them. That was pretty cool to see and to touch the octopus. The captain asked if any of us wanted a tatoo from the octopus, of course we had no idea what he was talking about but then he put the octopus on my arm and the octopus suctioned itself to me and when the captain finally pulled it off, there was long red marks on my arm. I was the only one to have the octopus give me a "tatoo" so I felt a lil bit better about only catching 5 fish. :) The lil guy didnt want to let go of me!!! On the way back to the docks the captain let me steer the boat back into the harbor. Dont worry I didnt hit anything!

When we got back on dry land we decided to go cook the fish that we caught. I was not about to touch the fish, cut the heads off or scale the fish so I let the boys do all the work. We then sat down and watched an episode of The Office while we ate all the fish. The fish turned out to be really good and it turned out to be one the best days here in Cyprus!