Γιασου!

So we just booked our 1st day of our next adventure. We leave tonight very late (technically May 2nd after midnight) to leave for Athens. The ferry takes a couple of hours to get to Athens from our beloved island of Santorini and if it's anything like the ferry here, we'll be glad we kept our thermal underwear. Notice I said "our" island. Yup, like every other place, Santorini is our island and Perissa beach is our beach. We've spent more time here than Killarney (talk about land squatting). It's been amazing here in Santorini. We've pretty much explored everything we wanted to and had more than 8 days on the beach. We've met some amazing people here. To the phenomenal women that came into our lives: ιαμας (ia mas!) and good luck. The Fab Five girls had an amazing day today! After a wonderful dinner party last night and lots of vodka, we danced the night away. We woke up today feeling a little rough, but we rocked this island! (Yes, Sarah that is for you =) ). We spent hours touring the island in a rented car, hiking to the Red Beach and watching the most inspiring waves, and then we metaphorically finished our Santorini trip by watching the most amazing sunset at Oia. You know it's breathtaking when the viewers give a round of applause for mother Gaia (Γαια): Thank you for the most intense, awe inspiring sunset!

To sum up the 8 days that we spent here: fantastic new (and hopefully life-long) friends, cheap vodka (the only drink we can afford on the island), fried eggplant, a great, pool-side hostel room, amazing drinking, chill, then partying sessions, and then of course the island itself! Beach, beach, and more beach! The best part is how much we may not have expected the trip to be like this, but quickly realized our souls needed this place. I'm refreshed, happy, light hearted, well feed, skin damaged, and totally content. Now we're off to my dream land: Italy! Sorrento, Italia, here we come! (By the way, thank you uomo Italiano for the Italian practice and the ανδρας for your Greek lessons).