Santorini!!!

Early morning found us taking the tender from our ship to the island of Santorini!

The guide on our bus from the port told us many items:

Blue and White Houses. Blue for the sky and water. White because it gets so hot in summer (42-45 C). On Aegean Sea which is part of the Mediterranean.

Volcano. Active. Animals know when an eruption will occur. In Thailand, elephants go up in the mountain when they know volcano and tsunami will happen, so she keeps an elephant in her house. Joke joke. But donkeys are everywhere. Interesting character of a lady.

Hotels on Santorini. Cheapest $500€ a night. Prices go up to $10000€ a night. She thinks that is nuts but it does show how important tourism is to the island.

Pistachios grow here. Very great quality but small in number

Overhead: Layne wants to bring a lizard and a pigeon home with him, Jacey a dog and Lindsay some donkey beer made only on Santorini.

The scenery at our first stop was the legendary scene that one sees in all the pictures. So beautiful.

Santorini was fabulous! Very beautiful. The kids, Felecia and I took the cable car down the mountain to the tender, while Linds walked down the many many stairs with a couple other women for a little extra exercise. You know because getting thousands a steps a day just isn’t enough ❤️

Greek word for the day Yaya = grandma.

A lovely afternoon was had on the ship while we sailed to Mykonos. The students hung at the pool and soaked up the sun. Tonight we celebrate Easter at midnight on Mykonos so we need to rest up.

Tonight after supper, we went into Mykonos to witness’s the celebrity lifestyle at the beach side town. We were here for the Saturday night/Sunday morning of Easter in the Greek Orthodox Church. At midnight, they had fireworks go off at churches and they shared lighting candles as we have done on Christmas Eve. Very festive and very boisterous! Fun!