Today has been an adventure! We started off the day with a great breakfast at our beautiful hotel in Athens. We spent the morning exploring Athens and it’s neat little side streets around the Acropolis. At noon, we went to the port to board our ship Gemini on Miray cruises. After boarding, we went had homework to do. EF seminar to listen to our “rules” and how we would be doing things. After lunch was had, we were able to enjoy some sunshine around the pool and begin to really learn the surroundings of the ship. We attended our lifesaving seminar of where to find your life jacket, where to meet and where to get on your lifeboat. Necessary procedure but let’s hope we don’t need it! Back to the pool area, where our boys joined in a soccer game with boys from Chicago. All is fun and games for hockey players trying to play soccer until the ball accidentally got booted overboard. Oops. Sorry Chicago boys!

Supper had us enjoying the buffet again and then settling into a little night life. Watching our prairie kids dancing was a highlight. Joe is quite a charmer as he asked some older lady to join him and made her day!

Our YG travellers are thoroughly enjoying our travel buddies from Eston. Our groups have completely meddled and we travel as one group, which I haven’t experienced on an EF trip before. Watching the interaction with the Eston crew, the soccer with the boys from Chicago and the dancing, our travellers could be an EF advertisement. It is awesome to witness!

The parents from Eston are as much fun as their students. Allie helped play a joke on one of the dads today as the dad had come prepared to help his daughters through ANY emergency. Allie was more embarrassed than the dad, but it did cause a lot of laughter.

Tonight we are sailing towards Santorini for an early day tomorrow of exploring!