Santorini

We arrived in Santorini on Monday about 6:00pm. We took a ferry from Mykonos and it only took us about 3 hours. Finding our hotel was sort of interesting-the cab driver droppped us off on a busy street with all of our bags and we asked him where the hotel was. His response was "take 2 lefts". We found it without too much trouble, but I was nervous for a minute! We checked in and then found a restaurant for dinner-Poseidon. On Tuesday morning we woke up and headed straight to the pool. Our hotel has an infinity pool on the second floor and is so pretty! We spent most of the day out there, until about 3:30 when we went inside to get ready. We took a bus to Fira (the capital of Santorini) and walked around exploring the city and the shops. We then took another bus to Ia (where 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' was filmed) to see the sunset. It was gorgeous! There were so many people there that we decided to take the bus back before eating dinner. We ate dinner at Zorbas-it was great!! This morning we woke up and walked around for a little while before eating lunch at Navy. I had my last greek dish-i will miss the taziki sauce! We also went back to the pool for a while. Now we're sitting on a terrace at the hotel, about to eat dinner before flying to Athens tonight. We'll fly from Athens to Florence at 6am tomorrow morning. Greece has been wonderful!

Mykonos

Yesterday morning we departed Athens on a high speed ferry. We arrived in Mykonos about 11am. Since we've been here, we have spend lots of time on the beach! It is gorgeous!! Yesterday we were on the beach in front of our hotel, Myconos Beach Hotel. We also explored the town and ate dinner at a wonderful restaurant in town, Nikos Tavern. A man that we met in Athens suggested the restaurant to us, and I am so glad we listened!! This morning we went to the beach by our hotel for a little while, and then took a bus to Paradise Island. We heard it was the "place to go" so had to check it out! There were lots of people, and the beach was great, but it wasn't as crazy as we'd heard. We just got back to the hotel now. We're going to dinner in town later tonight. Happy Birthday Mom, I've been thinking about you all day, you would love it here!

Athens, Greece

We made it to Athens yesterday morning after a long flight over the Atlantic ocean! When we arrived we were exhausted, but we made it around the city! We walked through several shopping areas and explored Athens. We ate an early dinner at an outdoor restaurant and watched the World Cup! Too bad Italy is out! We then got gelato and made our way back to the hotel! I was so ready to go to sleep!

Today has been wonderful so far (it's only 2:45pm here)! We woke up and had a complimentary breakfast in the hotel. We then went to the Acropolis! We also went to the new Acropolis Museum! After our museum trip, we continued walking around Athens. We ate lunch and I had a delicious Chicken Souvlaki plate! We don't have much planned for the afternoon!

We are spending our last night in Athens tonight, and will go to Mykonos tomorrow morning early (at 6:15am) on a speed ferry!

on the plane!!

We have officially boarded the plane!!! Very back row, but all together! We're ready to go!!!!!!

Almost time!!!

Just 2 weeks from today we will be embarking on our adventure!!