This morning we woke up ate breakfast, another delicious breakfast of yogurt and honey that we wouldn’t miss for all the tea in China, and then headed for the port. We had another 3 hour ferry ride surrounded by a bunch chatty-Kathy Australians and then finally, arrived in Mykonos. We stepped off the boat to a horde of people shoving signs in our faces advertising rooms for rent and pushed our way through the crowd to find our driver. Needless to say, our first impression of Mykonos was not exactly love at first sight.
After checking into our hotel we wandered down into the town and quickly realized that our first impression had definitely been wrong. Mykonos is adorable. It has so much character! It is like a little Venice if Venice was all bright blue and white and didn’t smell like sewage.
The town is a labyrinth of narrow little pedestrian streets lined with darling little cafes ordained with fuchsia bougainvillea and boutiques bursting with brightly colored clothes, jewelry, and leather gladiator sandals.
We explored around for a while, discovered the giant pelican, who is the mascot of the island, peeked in a few shops, and finally found a cute little restaurant to eat dinner at. After dinner we went back to our hotel exhausted (and for some of us with stomachaches from creamy bacony pasta carbonara) and went to bed.
This morning we woke up to what sounded like a hurricane outside our window. Apparently gale force winds are the norm on Mykonos the “windy island”. News to us. Anyways, that didn’t stop us for heading up to enjoy our usual breakfast of yogurt and honey (new setting, but same delicious breakfast options!) and after we decided to head out to one of Mykonos’ famous white sand beaches. Apparently the most popular beaches on the island are Paradise and Super Paradise (someone really clever and original was clearly in charge of the beach naming…maybe he was hired over from the company in charge of naming kitchen appliances) Anyways, Paradise and Super Paradise are the two party beaches where people drink and dance all day so its filled to the brim with drunk and rowdy tourists and you can hear the Euro clubbing music throbbing even from the next beach over. If that wasn’t enough to spark our interest: it’s also a nude beach. A gay nude beach. Just the kind of scene we flew 10,000 miles for.
So us being, well us, we asked the front desk which beach was the relaxing, quiet family beach, and beelined in that direction. When we finally got to the beach we rented some beach chairs (only 3.50 euro a chair, what a bargain!) greased ourselves up with tanning oil, and basked in the gorgeous Greek sun all day enjoying our view of crystal clear water and plenty of pairs of saggy old lady boobies.
When we got back to the hotel we showered, got dressed, and hit the town again for some shopping and an early dinner. After dinner we stumbled upon a cute little coffee place with free WiFi where we parked it for almost 3 hours in order to update the blog for all of our avid readers who had been so deprived of our adventures for the past 5 days. At about 10 pm our cute little coffee bar turned into a gay bar bar and with all the couples canoodling and staring at us clearly wondering why a group of 3 cute American girls on vacation were glued to a computer like daytraders, so we took that as our cue to head out once again, but not before enjoying some cappuccini yet another order of yogurt with honey mmm mmm mm. As we stepped into another cute little mykonoian boutique we suddenly realized that we were all fire-engine red with sunburns. Apparently tanning oil was not quite as good of an idea as we had originally thought. Whoops. After stopping by some pay phones and making a few phone calls we hiked our bright red little buns back up to the hotel and went to bed.
After checking into our hotel we wandered down into the town and quickly realized that our first impression had definitely been wrong. Mykonos is adorable. It has so much character! It is like a little Venice if Venice was all bright blue and white and didn’t smell like sewage.
The town is a labyrinth of narrow little pedestrian streets lined with darling little cafes ordained with fuchsia bougainvillea and boutiques bursting with brightly colored clothes, jewelry, and leather gladiator sandals.
We explored around for a while, discovered the giant pelican, who is the mascot of the island, peeked in a few shops, and finally found a cute little restaurant to eat dinner at. After dinner we went back to our hotel exhausted (and for some of us with stomachaches from creamy bacony pasta carbonara) and went to bed.
This morning we woke up to what sounded like a hurricane outside our window. Apparently gale force winds are the norm on Mykonos the “windy island”. News to us. Anyways, that didn’t stop us for heading up to enjoy our usual breakfast of yogurt and honey (new setting, but same delicious breakfast options!) and after we decided to head out to one of Mykonos’ famous white sand beaches. Apparently the most popular beaches on the island are Paradise and Super Paradise (someone really clever and original was clearly in charge of the beach naming…maybe he was hired over from the company in charge of naming kitchen appliances) Anyways, Paradise and Super Paradise are the two party beaches where people drink and dance all day so its filled to the brim with drunk and rowdy tourists and you can hear the Euro clubbing music throbbing even from the next beach over. If that wasn’t enough to spark our interest: it’s also a nude beach. A gay nude beach. Just the kind of scene we flew 10,000 miles for.
So us being, well us, we asked the front desk which beach was the relaxing, quiet family beach, and beelined in that direction. When we finally got to the beach we rented some beach chairs (only 3.50 euro a chair, what a bargain!) greased ourselves up with tanning oil, and basked in the gorgeous Greek sun all day enjoying our view of crystal clear water and plenty of pairs of saggy old lady boobies.
When we got back to the hotel we showered, got dressed, and hit the town again for some shopping and an early dinner. After dinner we stumbled upon a cute little coffee place with free WiFi where we parked it for almost 3 hours in order to update the blog for all of our avid readers who had been so deprived of our adventures for the past 5 days. At about 10 pm our cute little coffee bar turned into a gay bar bar and with all the couples canoodling and staring at us clearly wondering why a group of 3 cute American girls on vacation were glued to a computer like daytraders, so we took that as our cue to head out once again, but not before enjoying some cappuccini yet another order of yogurt with honey mmm mmm mm. As we stepped into another cute little mykonoian boutique we suddenly realized that we were all fire-engine red with sunburns. Apparently tanning oil was not quite as good of an idea as we had originally thought. Whoops. After stopping by some pay phones and making a few phone calls we hiked our bright red little buns back up to the hotel and went to bed.
Mykonos town
New Sandals and Dresses :)
Awesome picture of Katers <3>
Cutest girl ever
Peek-a-boo
"I can climb a hill"
Playing in a Mykonos neighbor
Mykonos is really windy
My new dress :)
Katies favorite club in Mykonos
Our trip to Greece in a nutshell
Climbing rocks
Dance! Dance! Dance!
Dinner in Mykonos :)
Tanning
myspace photo
Typical street in Mykonos
getting ready for dinner
Katie's purple sunglasses
On our balcony
Adorable
Windmills
Tara captured this picture of me blowing in the Mykonian wind
After my LONG dress blew up
On the boardwalk
The pelican
We had to climb a huge hill to get to our hotel several times a day
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