Mykonos, Greece

This trip was totally hyped up, and for good reason. I am definitely not dissappointed with how things are working out for me here. Elise and I made it to Athens without a hitch. Elder Nelson actually flew with us on our non stop flight to Paris. He was in first class though. Can you believe they do nonstop flights from SLC to Paris? Thats amazing to me.

Anyway, once we got to Athens we hopped on the metro and made our way to Piraeus where we had a hotel. Our hotel was decent enough. I woke up at 12:45 AM by natural causes and had a very difficult time getting back to sleep.

On Friday morning we woke up at 5:00 AM to go out and search for a ferry. We had looked at times but didn't have any tickets or anything. We bought the tickets, had breakfast on the street where an extremely nice old Greek man served us, and watched the sun rise as our ferry pulled away at 7:25.




The ferry ride was like 5 hours but we got some great views of the sunrise and several islands that we both passed and docked in to drop people off. When we got of the boat in Mykonos we were accosted by a woman trying to get us to stay in her hotel. She offered us a really cheap price for a nice room with a kitchen and stuff, but we don't need all that stuff and it was still more expensive than we wanted. We were both very turned off by how forceful she was so we went with the nice guy that was driving out to Paradise Resort. Thats the PARTY hostel and the bus was already full of young people like us. We ended up getting pretty good deal there, and the parties aren't as intense now that its the off season.

We spent Friday afternoon out at the beach. I gave Elise a quick overview and we went snorkeling. We were enjoying the fish and the coral when suddenly Elise pointed me to a...OCTOPUS! Are you kidding me? It was awesome and I even saw it open all its arms and move around a rock. Wow. SO worth how cold it was getting into that water.


We spent the evening out at the Resort trying our darndest to stay awake at least until 9. We made friends with the cook at the bar (the picture above is me at the bar) who finds it extremely interesting and funny that we are Mormon and don't get drunk. We made it to 8:30 before we fell asleep.


This morning we were at breakfast at 7:30 and on our bus into town at 9:15. We made it to the town before it was awake and were able to watch it come alive. The white buildings accented by color are absolutely amazing.


We've taken a ton of pictures but I've just included a random few since we're on a time limit here. We're making sure to enjoy the sites, eat good food, and not take it for grantide. We even met a painter who is from Northampton Massachusettes where we stayed for Foodplay rehearsals. Small world? Yes, yes it is.





We're off now to spend the rest of the day in this beautiful town. It rained last night and was cloudy this morning, but now it is hot and sunny. Of course that means we get to carry our jackets around for the rest of the day. :) Tomorrow we get on another ferry and head off to Santorini. I'll post more soon!