Sunsets in Santorini

He drove us to Kafieris on the Cliff and Nadja (not her name) greeted us. The place was nice and the view was rewarding. Absolutely gorgeous in fact. We were starved so we looked around and Laura spotted "Mama's", I had actually read it was good and boy it was! She was hilarious too. "U.S....best fucking country in the world!" she exclaimed. Then she turned to her other table..."Singapore, best fucking airport in the world!" Then stated, "I don't give a shit, I do what I want". Clearly Mama. We finally had the stuffed tomatoes and I ate a traditional dish sort of like shepherds pie. delish but rich. Then we topped off the night with some ice cream.

We got up early and Mama had told us to pay no more than 25 euros for a car and checked a couple places but none would come down from 30 euros so we agreed and then began our drive to the Read Beach. The beach was absolutely stunning and it was quite the marvel. We tried to go to the Ancient ruins at Akrotiri but of course they were closed?

We then went to the lighthouse at the tip of the island (which apparently has the best sunset...not Oia...) and got great shots and I felt like I was at the edge of the world from there. We then went to Kamari, a black sand beach and bronzed a little then drove to Perissa and walked the boardwalk for a bit then stopped for some girly cocktails and a great view of the desolate beach. Next on our list was one more beach to lay out on and then we began the drive to the other side of the island to see the sunset in Oia.

We got our seats an hour before and waited for the show to start. It really was beautiful. My camera couldn't even capture how cool the colors were and how the town shined when the sun hit it. It was more like a painting. We ran back to town to drop off the car in the nick of time and quickly changed clothes and then grabbed a bit to eat. We settled for this nice restaurant and we shared an appetizer of stuffed peppers (yum!) and I got a chef salad. After dinner we checked the internet at the restaurant (not weird at all) and went back to our place to read Cosmo! tops all night (ballin' on a budget). We got up that next morning and decided to check out the town of Fira.

We rode the donkeys down to the old pier and we noticed all of these ships with a lot of Americans on them. They were leaving for a volcano tour so we hopped on too! We explored 5 volcano sites and they took us to a hot spring which was actually freezing. I was feeling broke after that decision and decided to walk up the way we came by donkey while Jackie opted for the cable car (smart girl). Bad idea Alex. I was sweating like a whore on nickel night. I was breathing in donkey crap and couldn't feel my legs. 590 steps later Laura and I arrived slightly proud of ourselves.

We saw Danielle and Michelle again at a restaurant for lunch and they joined us and we had one last hoorah. We headed back to the hostel for our ride to the port 2 hours early. Ha.

We sat down at an outdoors restaurant just wanting bottles of water and the waitress came over saying that we couldn't just order water. I felt like I was back in the US. Jackie sweetly replied, "I hope somebody f****s you in your whore mouth". Five minutes later.

At 6 we got on our slow boat (yay, smooth sailing!) bound for Ios and got to see a beautiful sunset just as soon as we were docking. Ben was there to greet us. A guy about our age and we were glad because we had begun to notice it was the cutres (creeps) that were the hostel/hotel chauffeurs.