Note: This blog contains some material not appropriate for young children. Ahem, alcohol.
Mykonos...dear Mykonos.
2 days ago we sailed into Mykonos. The whole group was ready to be done with the first leg and the sailing was especially rough. We made it in and finally got sorted. The plan was to unload our stuff and go into town for the day. The port is about 2.2km from town, so we had to take a taxi in.
Helena, Katie, Emily and I went into town and shopped. It was an all day event for which I forgot my camera. Uugh! The scenery and the quaintness of Mykonos is everywhere. We walked into this store and found ourselves in the middle of a handmade shoe department. They were beautiful leather sandals everywhere. I ended up buying a pair of black strappy ones that are flat for 20 euros. And the coolest part is that the woman selling us the shoes was married to the man who made the shoes.
We continued to shop, stopping to eat and then starting again. I bought a silver chain bracelet that has the typical Greek waves symbol. So cute.
Then we headed back to our boat to get showered for the night out. I wore my red dress which was killer with my silver sandals. So, we hopped on a bus with the new group and headed back into town.
Let me just say, the 3 Australian girls we picked up are so cool! They are so much more fun than the older couple last week. We also have John, a man from a small town near Chicago as well. He will be getting his own blog entry dedicated specifically to him. Yeah. Yeah.
After dinner of fabulous Rigatoni with 4 cheeses, we started drinking. We went to this bar called the Scandinavian. It was full of tasty drinks and even tastier waiters. They were from around the world. Did I mention Mykonos has a huge gay population? We wandered back down to the harbor to drink some of our own vodka. After having about 1 shots worth, I made a huge error and accidentally flung the vodka bottle into the harbor. There was no rescuing it. So, Katie went to buy us another bottle.
As she was gone, 3 boys sidled up to us. They started looking at us but I couldn't tell if they spoke English. Finally they made their move and introduced themselves. 2 were from a small town up north and the cutest one, Christos was from Athens. We hung out with them for a while and then headed back to the Scandinavian bar. We danced there with shirtless gay men. Then at 2am we headed to Argo, another dance club. It was crazy that no people were there yet! But we had a good time anyways.
At 6am, finally, we wanted to take a cab home. Only problem was there were no cabs. We stayed at the cab stand for about a half an hour and saw 1 cab. And there was a long line in front of us. So, Christos, Emily, Katie, her boy Helias and I started walking home. In our intoxicated state it was fun. But the sun was starting to come up! We finally made it home and I have coordinated to hang out with Chris in Athens. But somewhere along the way we lost Katie.
The next morning after about 3 hours sleep we got up. It turns out, Katie got on a scooter with some random Greek guy and he gave her a ride back to the boat. She got there about 45 minutes before us. But the walk was extremely memorable, as well as the night.
And the title of this blog refers to a shirt Christos was wearing. Appropriate!
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