Sants Rins

Santorini…..this is a vacation. We pulled into the center of an ancient volcano and were surrounded by staggering islands with all white buildings seemingly hanging to the sides of the cliffs. The water is the most brilliant navy blue you’ve ever seen and as we approached the tender point the smell of donkey shit flooded the air.

I rode a donkey to the top of the mountain up to the town of Fira. A donkey. I named him burro, or burns for short, and this bitch decided to take a 15 minute break and just stood in the middle of the road. THEN ho decides to start sprinting up the hill. I pass everybody on the hill and take the lead. Some Canadians in the back were yellin something about me being from Texas but I couldn’t really hear cause Burns was a runnin. We get to the top and just walk around the winding narrow streets filled with shops. Jewelry shops, clothing shops, food shops, you could spread your arms out to the side and touch each store on either side. It was narrow but gorgeous. We walked around for a while and then went to a bar overlooking the ocean and just relaxed in the sun. after then we split up and kim and I took a bus to Kamari beach on the other side of the island. It was a black pebble beach and we walked around, looked at some shops, and stopped at a bar and got a drink. A few hours pass we go back to catch a bus and find more drinks from a grocery store so Kim and I sit on the curb and just drink as the sun is setting in Santorini, Greece as we wait for the bus. Get the bus and head back into town. Go and get a crepe from this store called NRG. I got a crepe with artichoke, chicken, pesto, tomato, feta, and red onion. It was sensational. Then we rode a cable car ski lift thing in total darkness straight down the cliff and back to our tender boat and sailed back to the ship.

Get on the ship and find out we’re having a sail-away party on the back deck. We go out as a cast, grab some drinks, and dance the night away as carly and the hal cats play some live music. Carly, scott, Kevin G…all friends all in the band(hal cats). We basically just did that all night long. Talk about a vacation. This is one night were I would have actually considered this job a vacation.