Mykonos

This morning we got up extremely way too early! Ahhh! But I guess that it turned out well because breakfast as this hotel is like a freaking cornucopia of awesome eating goodness! There was everything there that you’d ever want for breakfast, including two types of bacon! ♥

We took a huge tour bus to the port of Piraeus where we boarded the cruise ship we’re on right now, the World Renaissance. The program director Elisabeth has a British accent (so cool) and is pretty friendly. Anyways, after getting my luggage into my verrry small cabin (which I share with Kim and Alex and Evelyn) I went up on deck with a bunch of other people to sit on lounge chairs and enjoy the cool air of the Aegean sea! There is a live band that plays the signature ‘cruise music’ in the afternoons. It is cool!

One thing I have noticed too is that European iced tea is completely disgusting! Someone said that Canada is the only country that sweetens its iced tea, for which I am very grateful! I tell you, if someone wanted to make a quick fortune, they would go to a high traffic tourist site in Greece, give out great big glasses of free unsweetened iced tea, and then charge two Euros for each sugar pack! (If anyone does this, I hereby get a quarter of the profits!)

All the while we were relaxing on deck, Evelyn and Kelvin were down in the bowels of the ship (in our cabin) and allegedly doing homework. Eventually it became rather suspicious when one of us would knock on the door and have to wait a good three minutes before one of them opened it. ‘Homework’ indeed!

In the afternoon we got off the ship to visit the island called Mykonos. I think I would have to say it is probably the most beautiful place I’ve been, ever. All the buildings are white, and everything else is a pretty bright colour. Wherever I turned to point my camera it was like another perfect postcard shot. And there were cats just wandering around all over the place!

On the island I was in a group of ten people that Selby called ‘the Horde’. It was pretty funny! Everyone had a job in the horde; mine was to tell people to hurry up if they’d spent too much time in one shop! The sun set while we were on Mykonos still, and it was so gorgeous. I will always remember this.

Dinner was back on the ship so we ate in the lower dining room, and now we are on our way to Kusadasi in Turkey.