The Land of Uncle J --- Greece

Since my spring break plans changed, I didn't think I would make it to Greece. I luckily found out that a few other girls wanted to go and got to plan an extended weekend. We left Rome late Wednesday night and camped out in the airport in Athens until out 5:30AM flight to the island Santorini. The airport was pretty nice and there were a lot of people sleeping in various places, despite this fact a cafe worker felt it necessary to yell at the 5 of us about laying down. The flight to Santorni was less than an hour and the sun was rising over the ocean as we landed...welcome to paradise. Our hotel picked us up at the airport and was nice enough to put us in a room to sleep for a few hours before we checked in, we even got upgraded to a bigger room. Our place was right by the beach and had several cute restaurants right around the area. Thursday we spent the day on the beach and Jenny and Me had dinner by the ocean. After our lunch we got free beers and after dinner we got some free cinnamon liquor= we were loving Greece. Friday we rented ATVS and went to the red beach, the lookout poiunt of the lighthouse, and cruised around. Friday night we went out to dinner in Fira, the main city, and then went to a bar and danced for a few hours, it was good night complete with free shots---see a theme? Saturday we took a boat tour to a volcano and hiked up that. The water was still pretty cold but Jenny and me decided to make the 50 meter swim through the cold water to the hot springs...which were not even warm, but I am to have done it. We flew back to Athens thats night and stayed in the Mariott. I took a nice long hot relazxing shower before sleeping in the most comfortable bed I've had the pleasure of inhabiting since coming to Europe. The next day we went to see Hadrian's Arch and the Acropolis. It was of course on top of hill, like everything else in europe.
The food In Greece was amazing and I think I may addicted to Greek yogurt with honey, the salads were so fresh, and even the tradtional saganoka and mosaka that I tried were really good. I truly hope to go back and spend more time in Greece someday :-)