Sarah speaking:
Last post was our last night in Athens...now we're sitting at the tourist center taking advantage of the free internet before we have to get on our ferry that will take us to Bari, Italy at 6pm. We'll arrive there at 8am (gaining an hour, woo hoo!), get on a train at 1:30 for Naples, probably go eat pizza at the famous pizza place from the book Eat, Pray, Love, and then visit Pompei the next day before heading to Rome.
We were on the island of Santorini the past 5 nights. 4 were spent on the island, last night was spent at the Athens airport :) Our ferry got in at midnight (how inconvenient is that!), so we hooked up with a couple from Austrailia that is traveling for a YEAR (and we thought 2 and a half months was a long time!), and scoped out a spot in the airport and tried (and failed) to sleep. Oh well...that means we'll be more tired tonight and hopefully sleep on the ferry. The 4 nights we were in Santorini were great though! The island wasn't necessarily what I expected...I think I built it up in my mind too much. But we had a good time one day renting a 4 wheeler and exploring the entire island,we got to see an amazing sunset in Oia too. Then we spent the next two nights in Perissa, and our hostel was a 6 minute walk from the beach...Katie was overjoyed :) We spent the entire next day at the beach (I hung out in the shade a majority of the day, we both got a little burnt (but Katie did wear sunscreen mom :) We climbed to ancient Thera the next morning (very hot but swimming felt so good afterwards!), then caught the ferry back to the mainland that afternoon.
Our funny story from the night before: we decided to switch to the 24 bed dorm in the basement because it was only 4 euro per person! Our bunks were way in the back the furthest away from the door, so we were completely thinking we were going to have this great night's sleep...well, we were woken up at 4:30am to the worst snoring we had ever heard in our life! But both of us felt too bad to go wake him up since we had never met him before, so we just had to deal with it for a long time until he finally rolled over :) Katie actually got out of bed and videotaped him :)
Thanks for all of the good vibes and for following our adventure...this computer won't let me upload pictures, but I'll try to do that asap...Sorry Anne, we didn't get to see any princesses :( But I'll keep an eye out at the next castle we go to...hi to all the schobels!!!!
Way to use the bikes Missy...we'll have to get together when I'm back in town to catch up! Sue, you have fun with Jordan at the concert...make sure to take some pictures for me! Hi to Dale!
Well, we have to go board our ferry...I got homesick a couple of days ago, and I'm glad that I get to be home come August! And you're right Mom, we will need a vacation from our vacation...that's why you and Susie are coming ;) Tell her good luck in the half marathon! Tell her I'll run one with her in the fall so I can get back into shape :)
Off to Italy! We'll have some pizza, pasta and gelato for you all! (That's all we plan on eating the whole time we're there ;)
LOVE,
Sarah and Katie
4 comments:
Why are you only eating pasta, pizza, and gelato? I would think Italy would be one of the best food places in the world. Why limit yourself? This is where I would splurge and get some good stuff! but that's me.
sarah looking like a tourist is not an uncommon site:)
Naples, it's the city named after your favorite word...maybe you should test out a naple on one of the locals and see how they feel about it! :) What else did you gals do in Santorini since you were there for 5 days? you couldn't have just toured that small little town the whole time!
Kelsey sending a naple or two your way :) And yah, I've seen that face on Sarah even in Minnesota, and that look on Katie was familiar too. We are booked into a flat in Scotland for a week and don't you two think for a second you'll have any downtime when you get there and as for that snoring -- who gets to sleep in the same room as me......
Oh sheesh, you may want to stay away from the naples, although I did think was hilarious kels :)
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