Day 15: Arrival in Santorini and Oia

We got up pretty early this morning to take a shuttle bus to the harbor, where we got on a bigger ferry than last time. The ride to santorini lasted about two hours, and I slept for most of it. Once off the ferry, we climbed on a bus and went up a bunch of switchbacks to the top of the volcano’s rim, where most towns are located. We’re staying at another resort and it’s absolutely beautiful (google el greco on santorini!). We’re only a five minute walk from santorini’s capital, fira. We had a short class to listen to two presentations before leaving to check out our rooms.

A bunch of us met to walk for lunch, but I went back to the hotel shortly after getting to restaurant. My stomach hurt and it was really hot and fragrant in the restaurant. Not a good combination.

After a small nap, i met up with erica, jenna, matt, meghan, and brooke and we all took the bus to Oia (pronounced eeyuh, like i used to call andrea), which is the city in the sisterhood of the traveling pants. the city is adorable - the roads are tiny and winding and full of shops. we took a bunch of pictures with amazing views, and i bought a present for mandi. we were going to watch the sunset there, but we were getting really hungry. so hungry, in fact, that we bought gyros at the bus station instead of waiting to get back to fira. let me just say that actual greek gyros are about 10 million times better than american gyros.

we've all been sitting in the lobby on our computers (except for me because i didn't bring mine) and talking since we got back.

Tomorrow is completely free here, but I’m not really very happy with the choices of things to do. There are only two package deals being offered to us, and they’re both pretty expensive. I wouldn’t mind spending the money, but I have two things that I really want to do and one tour does one while the other tour does the other. Both are then filled with things that I’m not too interested in paying for. So I’m one of three people going off alone. I think Meghan is going to come with me, so hopefully we'll be able to find the individual things we want to do. goodnight from santorini!