Travel Journal of Greece! First three days.

Greece!!!
We have arrived and are still alive!!!We started off with what could be expected on a 9 1/2 hour flight to Paris, Meaning crying babies, old men behind us wiggling their toes between our arm rests and of course not getting any sleep. The good news is that Elder Russell M. Nelson was on our flight so we knew the plane was probably not going to crash.
We rushed through the airport so quickly in Paris that we saw nothing but we did have a short talk with the apostle..In Paris. How cool.
From the moment we arrived in the Athens airport I liked this place, specifically because I found a $50 bill on the ground in the airport. I took it to the desk and they told me to keep it! Score. On with Greece! We hopped on a metro and walked through the somewhat ghetto town of Pireaus, which is a little port town where we stayed the night to catch early ferry the next morning. Whew. We were pretty exhausted.


10/18

So we hop on a ferry to Mykonos and from this point on, we have no real plan of what is next. We left at 7:30 in the morning so we got to see an awesome sunrise from the boat with greece in the background. After a 5 hour Ferrie ride we finally were at destination 1. We hopped on a shuttle that took us out to Mykonos Beach. This beach seems to be a spring break college party type of beach during regular season, but it was quiet empty and nice for us since it is October. We got a cute little penthouse for very cheap and after eating headed straight to the ocean (Aegean Sea) We went snorkeling and it was very cool. I have never snorkeled before and we got to see fish and coral and an OCTOPUS! I was right above it until it opened up all eight legs and freaked me out so i swam away quickly. I am pretty satisfied that the first day swimming we saw an octopus.
There are cats everywhere here. Probably 12 or more just living off of dropped food at the resort we are staying at. With a whole family of kittens. We explored the beach the rest of the evening and when 7:30 hit we were both exausted. We forced our selves to stay awake until 8:30 and then we crashed hard of course going to bed so early we were wide awake at 6 am the next morning. We are still working on the whole time difference thing.

10/19
We caught an early bus into the town of Mykonos, where litterally every corner you turn the streets look like that right off of a post card. It is so cute and the shore is absolutley stunning. They say that people cant leave this place once they visit. We actually met a lady who is from... weird....Northampton Mass. The city that we lived for two weeks for foodplay. A bizzare coincidece. But she visited this place and just fell in love and moved here. The streets and scenery are absolutly stunning and I can't stop taking pictures. It is great weather and we are actually very hot and stop at this internet place to take a break and get out of the sun and because the bugs are eating me alive.

The food that I have had so far.... A few Gyros (SO good!)
Lots of pasteries and crossants
Baklava (sp?)
About to go get myself a crepe.

I am OFF!! Love you all and miss you..