Well this has been a great 24 hours. We got up very early yesterday in this beautiful hotel in Santorini.... and left that great place. I was only there for less than 48 hours... and I know that I need to go back. Santorini is a great place to just relax and be there.. We had to fly back to Athens to go to Mykonos.... That is not so bad. They are short flights, and the airport has free wifi, and we watched the people go by in the airport which is always fun. Being in Europe is SO NOT being in America... The people are beautiful and great to look at.. I have been called the Queen of Right Sizing... I sit and tell what I think are the stories of their lives of the people we are looking at. Well it does pass the time away..
We had a short flight to Mykonos. At the airport we met the Budget guy (the car), the owners of the villa we are staying at and the warm air, blue skies and the lovely greek people. We got the rav4, drove a short distance .... UP on the hill to this beautiful villa. It is like we are in a little villa development. We have a huge outdoor parking, patio, pool, sunning area. The villa itself has 3 floors, 6 bedrooms... out door sitting areas for anything from eating to lounging..
This is as usual very beautiful as we usually stay in great place when we travel. We look out over the harbor of Mykonos.. I call it that but have no idea if there is a real name for it.. but across the "water" is Mykonos. We are a short distance to this little "town" with markets, cafe's, internet, bakery, fish market etc.
The first day it was just Tom, Joe, Michael G and I. Today Earl and Agosto arrive, Janie, Jill, and Michael tomorrow, and then on Saturday Scott and John (LI pair) and Michael G leaves. So yesterday we just laid around the pool in the afternoon, got unpacked, alotted the bedrooms etc. Tom and I went shopping for food, and to scope out the area for the places we will need and use as we now call this place home for our time here.
We found all what we needed.. I did have to make the sounds of a cow to try to ask where the meat market was and we did find food, drug store, fish market, bakeries and this great restaurant that has a cafe which internet is where we need to go. As I sit typing we are in the Anixi Cafe out on there veranda looking at the water, blue skies, breezy and nice.
We got alot of staples food and food for dinner. Then we just started to unpack, relax. Now... all things aren't perfect here.... :) We have/had 2 issues we had to deal / dealing with.. The first one is cats... Greece (at least the islands) there are cats that live in the wild. They are for the most part friends etc. But we had a little cute yellow kitten visitor.. at the window to the kitchen.. He just meowed... and never stopped. I think he was just hungry.. He was so cute, clean and looked like a house cat. It is kind of sad...when you think of it. Well we tried to chase him off since we figured that if we gave him food or milk, he would never leave. Well that one kitten has turned into 4.. we are thinking a mother and 3 kittens. Not such a big deal but we do leave the doors open to the villa.. so that is an issue. They did find a place to sleep but they are back this am. So Tom hasn't seen them in the last hour.. but they could be upstairs on one of the beds.... :) That issue I can live with..
The other issue was after we turned into bed, we had mosquitos... I killed 3 and finally got some sleep.. However that was not a quick or early off to sleep. So we have decided that we need to close the doors and windows in the late afternoon so then hopefully we won't have the bug issue when we are trying to sleep. The cats.. I think we will have to live with. I don't mind so much but some of us it will be an issue.
So Tom made a great meal of pork chops and beef, potatoes, zuchini and tomatoes.. These pork chops were so thick... We ate outside on the veranda by candlelight in the lanterns... looking over to Mykonos and the night lights of Mykonos. Can I say it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!! enough???? We just sat there eating a wonderful meal, after a long great day enjoying the moment..... AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..... one of those moments you just won't forget..
Then after clean up Tom, Joe and Michael G went into Mykonos... looked around, shopped, and just scoped it out. T&J have been here before so it wasn't new to them .... but it has been years. I just wanted to be alone, to myself in this big villa... I just relaxed, read, and had a great time...
This am.. we got up around 9 AM... to a picture perfect day... We had breakfast, and then Michael and I headed out to the Anixi Cafe where the interent is. We are enjoying the day, typing, chatting, viewing and just saying aaaahhhhhhhh. We walked down here this am... and I am thinking that I will be doing walking every morning. It wasn't too far but going back up the hill will be some exercise. Michael will walk with me while he is here, and hopefully I can get someone to walk with me next week. If not.. no biggie.. I will explore on my own.
Michael and I have talked about tomorrow (his last full day) and we are going to spend more time in the villa in the morning, and then head in (walk) to Mykonos and spend the day exploring, shopping, and seeing what is there. We will meet the rest for dinner around 9 PM. So that will be a full day.
I will take some pictures today... and then post them on the blog tomorrow...
Before I forget.. while I am in Greece, my blog is thinking I am typing in Greek... so when I do my spell check before I send the entries... EVERYTHING is highlighted to fix.. since the english is not greek. SO.. being said... you will be getting my entries while here unedited. Which I know is very scary.. Sorry
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