I think I just found heaven...

So yeah, guys I just got back from a 5 day 4 night tour of some of the Greek islands and it was seriously one of the most beautiful/relaxing places I have ever been or seen in mi vida. Hopefully these next couple of posts will explain a little bit more about what we did and describe the wonderfully taken pictures on facebook which I took by the way. I'm thinking about becoming a photographer now guys, forget triathlete or doctor - jk. So what I'm gonna do is make a post for each day to recall where our group went and what we did. Aight so I'll start day 1 right now.

DAY 1 = Mykonos

Today was the day we woke-up from our apartments in Athens at 4:30am to meet the group at about 5:00am so we could travel to catch the ferry to the island of Mykonos at 7:00am. Yeah, we were exhausted! We basically carried our luggage on the bus and on the metro until we got to the ferry for 2 hours. But aside from all the moaning and groaning, we made it to the ferry all together and all in one piece. Now a little bit about the beautiful island of Mykonos. Mykonos is one of the top Greek islands of the Cyclades (island chain) for tourist destinations. So we weren't surprised to see millions of foreigners there when we got off the ferry. The island was believed to have been named after a local hero who was considered to be the god Apollo's (Apollo is the god of sun) grandson. Aight so enough of that. Pulling into the port, our jaws literally dropped. It was beautiful! I seriously think I just found heaven because I definitely think we had to pass through golden gates at one point as we entered the island. In fact we passed through them on the bus that took us to our hotel-yeah!

So on the bus everyone's like, "I am definitely coming back here for my honeymoon." My friend Alex and I agreed that if we were convicts or destined to go to jail for commiting whatever crime that we would escape and meet up and run away to Mykonos and just go into hiding. So guys if this happens you know where I am, but just don't tell anyone...yeah, cool. Alright so we get to our hotel in this little town called Ornos. After dropping our bags off in our rooms and changing into our bathing suits we run into the front office and ask the man in the slowest english that we could, "where's the beach?!?!?" He told us to take a left and then right or something like that but the important thing to remember is that the beach was basically in our backyard, yep, backyard. The water is so clear that when you get in you can see the bottom and the fish right next to you! I had to buy some goggles to get the full scuba diving affect. By the way SCUBA stands for self contained underwater breathing apparatus, just a side note. So we all just chilled on the beach till we had to head back for class at 6:00pm.

For class we went to Alice's mother in-law's house and took our quiz and then went on a walking tour of Mykonos. Once again it was amazing! My facebook pics show the little alley looking walkways that contained lots of shops and restaurants. Golly it was AWESOME! We ended up walking into a small museum to see models of ships and navigational equipment from back in the day. Class was pretty short today since we had been up early and traveling all day.

So after class we were all hyped up about this party at Paradise Beach that night. Paradise Beach is a beach located about 10 minutes from our hotel which was not far at all. It was the grand opening party and after reading the flyer everyone was like "Let's go, let's go!!!" So...we went. We all got ready after class and prepared to take the bus to Paradise. On the bus we met this really cool girl Jody who was from Australia. She was really friendly and she explained to us that she was interning with Paradise Beach club in Mykonos for the summer. We all loved her! In fact she ended up staying with us for the whole amount of time at the party. So we get to the party and we're inside and we start dancing and seriouls right when you start dancing a guy comes right over to you and dances with you. Sometimes the guys are creepy, and sometimes they are pretty chill. Basically that night, we all met creepers. There were a lot of foreigners there, specifically Canadians, Australians and Americans but there were also Greeks. At about 2:30am we called it a night. We had to leave at 2:30 b/c that's when the last bus came. The next day each one of us had a story to tell. haha crazy night.