Mykonos and Santorini

Bill & Tenon in Santorini

Bill - the Chief Editor-in-Queen

Gay Cruise!

Pelican Shopper

All White Buildings

Pelican Shopper

 Well, if you haven't guessed by now, Mykonos' buildings are all painted white (see above). Actually, we learned in Santorini that at some point the Greek goverment had everyone sanitize their buildings with lime - but people discovered that the building stayed much cooler when they did as a result of the color. Now all of them are painted white - hence Tenon's comment about being a great place to open a paint store!

Mykonos Welcome from Harbor

The streets in Mykonos (and Santorini, actually) are a labrynity - this was basically to keep pirates from being able to find their way around their city. As a result - it feels a little Disneyesque. As we were wondering the streets, we noticed an interesting shopper just ambling along as if he/she were one of the crowd. It was a pelican! Ray sound out loud how he didn't realize how ugly the birds were while standing in front of it - and I of course responded something to the effect 'Dear, be kind - he might here you'...which is basically how I act around Babe - assuming that all animals speak English...of course we're in Greece, so it didn't understand a word he said anyway since obviously it's only fluent in Greek! LOL

We went to be fairly early, but the 'boys' were out to party in Mykonos and apparently there are ongoing infrastructure problems in Greece. Apparently the power went out on the whole island for an hour right in the middle of the party. Oh dear, that didn't go well!

Santorini was fine- it was very similar to Mykonos, but MUCH hotter for some reason.