Today we had planned to just wander around on our own, so
there was no rush to meet a tour group. It was lovely to get a little extra
sleep, especially since we had been up at 3am to watch the Cavs game. (BTW,
when I say we watched the games – I never mean on TV. The games are not being
broadcast on the ship. We have to stream them on our iPhones and huddle
together to watch.)
Once on land, we walked along Mykonos’ charming harbor front
and looked for sea glass on the beach. It became crowded quickly, so we decided
to wander over to the Little Venice area and stop for smoothies and coffee.
There may have also been a Nutella crepe involved. We ate overlooking the ancient
windmills and enjoyed the beautiful view.
Little Venice, Mykonos
Over by the windmills, a man was
playing some kind of old Greek instrument that looked and sounded like a goat
bladder. Adam gave him 2 Euros and the man didn’t even nod in our direction. Lucky for you, we caught it on video.
As we walked away, Adam wrote a song:
Nobody-eeee
Nobody-eeee
Nobody-eeee
Can play the goat bladder
Like meeeee
Then we wandered through the town to shop a little. The
streets of town were purposely made maze-like so that invaders would get lost.
Apparently, that includes tourists because wow – what a tangled web of tiny little
alleys meandering up a hillside. Everything was white. Every building, every
street. It was stunning! But also blinding.
That's me standing on this white church
The only non-white building in town, and it was beige
Churches are really small in Greece! Adam said they "aren't even human size!"
Adam found a captain’s hat and we debated whether to buy it so he could wear it around the ship, randomly shaking hands and joining tables at dinner. We decided to pass, but regretted it later.
We walked past a store where we overheard a shopkeeper
telling his friend, “The best customers are from the Village of Obama!” and we
laughed out loud.
We had lunch in a small garden courtyard, with some of the
best service I have ever had in my life. We watched men carrying clear buckets
full of olives walk past. I commented, “how many olives could one place
possibly serve?!” just as we saw 5 more guys carrying two giant buckets each
walk down the alley and into the restaurant. Oh, Greece.
We stumbled upon a seemingly endless whitewashed staircase
and decided to climb it. Somewhere along the way, I got hit by a horrible trash
odor and declared I was going to rename the town Mykonostinky. We called it that
the rest of the day.
At the top of the staircase, there was a lone windmill, and
a perfect vista over both the village below, and our ship, which was the tallest
building in town.
We returned to the ship, ready to kick butt at trivia. It
was music trivia and we were sure we would win since I knew that Dobie Gray
sings Drift Away and a bunch of other obscure things. But we came in third (by
one point!) because we didn’t know who sings Wild Thing. I will now forever
remember it is The Troggs.
We went to the slush bar, ordered blackberry mojito
smoothies and watched sail away from the lawn club as we spread out on beach
towels.
We ate dinner at the buffet again, did a bit of a pub crawl,
then popped into the show in the main theater. We planned on going in just to
make fun of it, because we both hate that kind of stuff. But the Destiny show
was actually really good! There were some Cirque Du Soleil level acrobatics and
a truly excellent female vocalist.
We went to bed by 10pm to get ready for our big day in
Crete.
Tomorrow: Accidentally Renting the Fanciest Car in Greece
Xoxo
