The Chance of a Lifetime...

Santorini Saturday, Sunday and Athens Monday!!

Saturday we got up and caught the bus to Perissa which is on the other/east coast of the island. The beach is pretty much right at the bus stop so we hopped off, and voila, we were on the beach! We paid for beach beds since we only had tiny hotel towels (which were large in comparison to the chammies we brought with us! ). The sand here is black from the volcano so its pretty but really hot! The water is really really clear, you can see everything!! We met a group of guys in the water....ok so maybe they were the reason we went into the water :) anyways, 2 Aussies: Aidan and Matt and then Jeff from Montreal...we talked for them for, well, hours. Dave and the Aussie boys swam out to the end of the cliff, climbed up and stylishly jumped off! Jeff and I stayed on the beach, and according to him we made out the whole time, but he must have been dreaming! He wanted to party, I told him the bars were by our hostel and that he was welcome to stay with us.... Dave and the Aussies came back about an hour later and we sat around for a while then the boys left to go back to their hostel. Jeff strategically stole Dave's watch so that we would stay at the beach until he came back, "in less than an hour". 2 hours later the wanderer returned and came sauntering down the beach, laid down on a beach chair and fell asleep. The Aussies came back and decided that they wanted to come party with us too...5 of us, 2 small beds...ok. We arranged to meet them at the bus stop by our place at 8.30 and Dave and I headed back. I showered and started to pack my stuff away, then we went to the bus stop to meet the boys...they didn't show up at 8.30 on that bus, or 9.00 ... Dave left me there and went home to shower, when she came back they still weren't there...at 9.30- an hour late, they finally showed up "we missed the bus, thanks for waiting, we brought friends!!" So now there's 9 of us- the family, Dave and I are the newest members- hooray for lots of friends- other than the boys from the beach there was Amanda and Carter from California, and Sarah and Christina from Australia. We took the boys stuff back to our place and then went to the supermarket to buy alcohol etc...we emerged half an hour later with 3 bottles of vodka, several cartons of juice, a couple of bags of chips, 2 sticks of bread, some. Taramasalata (mum, I finally ate it, its pretty good), Tzatziki (sp?) And something else. Good and ready for a night of partying! We sat out by the pool, ate, drank, Spilled, laughed, got marker/sharpie tattoos from Jeff- super cool!, and just had a lot of fun...we were just about to pack it all away and go to the bars when. French dude walked out from his room in his orange and pink pajamas, hahaha, and said "I think now is a good time for you to go to bars" haha so we agreed, apologized, cleaned up and took off.
1st stop was Murphys which was the Irish bar that ripped us off the night before...we got beer for 5euro and danced for a while. I walked outside for some air and I found a little kiosk store that sold cans of beer for 1,50 so of course I got beer there and drank it in the street...I ran into Carter and Amanda and she went and told the rest of the group about the cheap beer while Carter and I bought more beer. The whole group came out and we partied in the street for a while, well it wasn't even a street, more like an alleyway, lots of fun!! We went to another bar where ladies got a free drink so that was super sweet...after that we headed back to our place and the bus stop along the way- Amanda, Carter, Sarah and Christina yook a taxi home and then the Aussie boys, Jeff, Davies and I went back to our place...woke up in the morning and had to check out, the Aussie boys disappeared and aparently got on a ferry and took it to another island. Then Jeff Dave and I took the bus back to Perissi and met up with the rest of the group on the beach again! We hung out there all day then showered secretly at our new family's hostel! Got some more bread and dip haha and took a taxi to the port. Sarah and Christina flipped a coin which decided that they would go to Athens so they caught the overnight ferry back with Dave and I...the ferry was freeeeziiiingggg!! We wore sooo many clothes and were sooo cold! We arrived in the morning, walked back to our original hostel, checked in and got a rooom really fast because the woman at the desk recognized me ha! Then all 4 of us passed out and slept for 4 hours, it was pretty funny because we didn't realize we were that tired. Then Dave and I got up and took the train to the Athens Olympic site. It was completely desserted which was kind of surprising but I giuess makes sense. So we wandered around there for a while took some pretty amusing pictures on the diving blocks of the pool and some other stuff. Then went to Plaka, got a coffee...with Baileys of course ;) then went back and met the girls at the hostel. Hung out for a while, then Christina realized that her shirt was missing from the balcony (the 6th floor) so she ran down and was trying to find it in the trees...some local guy came over and pointed it out to her, someone gave her a broom and she got it down. Of course Dave Sarah and I just watched from the balcony :) After the drama we took the train to Plaka for some dinner, we ran into some local dude who asked what we were looking for so we told him and he took us to his favorite restaraunt. One of the waiters grabbed my hand and pretty much dragged me to a table, it was kind of amusing...we sat, ordered etc, we had finished eating and were waiting for the bill when the waiter came back and said "I'm your grandfather and I take care of you, I only have sons, no girls!" So we kind of just sat there, what do you say? Then he came back with a plate of fruit (which we hadn't ordered) so we thanked him and ate it...then we were sitting, waiting, laughing and he came over with a huge plate of melon, cut a piece, Sarah said jokingly "what's he gonna do?! Feed it to us?!" and he proceded to used my fork to feed watermelon to Sarah, it was so funny! Oh, and during our rediculously long dinner we saw a dude from Australian Idol, apparently he got 10th and also got caught with Paris Hilton- the girls filled Dave and I in on all the gossip...
We headed home after a pretty amusing evening, Dave and packed our stuff ready to leave in the morning and we finally crawled into bed around 1am.
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posted by Kirby @ 2:31 PM