6/11-6/13- MKYONOS!

This weekend was one of the few weekends the archaeology people were in town- so we decided to take advantage of it by going to Mykonos! We all took Friday off and went super early in the morning (like 6 am or something).
The archaeology students had left the previous day. We stayed in cabins (little wooden boxes with two beds and that's it) in a hostel site at Paradise beach. It was cool as we left we saw the sunrise in both Athens and Mykonos (and obviously over the sea). The flight was only 30 minutes but we got a delicious caramel pecan cookie, drinks, and crackers- Aegean has great service! Oh- we get free flights on Aegean bc two of the interns work there. We only get 3 flights and one of the interns has to travel with us- so it's hard to coordinate. But it's a great opportunity.

We get to Mykonos. Funny story: we hear this noise and Nick asks if it's Teicher to which I respond no it's a goat. The funny part is Nick was totally right- when Sam woke up Marj/I died laughing because he did (at points) sound like the goat. So we arrived in Mykonos and took a nap. Then we went to the beach. We had gyros on the beach for lunch. Around 4 I think Marj/Liz/Angela/I went into the town. We wandered and took pictures. Then we found this cute cafe/coffee shop and ordered crepes for dinner and watched the World Cup. The first games were that day. At some point later that night we met up with the rest of the group.



We hung out with the rest of the group, but they didn't really want to dance. So Angela/Liz/Marj/Zheela/Emma/Becca and I went dancing.

The next day was pretty similar. Everyone but Liz/Angela/Zheela/Emma/Marj/Becca/I went on ATVs to wander the island. We just chilled on the beach. Again went into town in the afternoon. I had a pretty epic quest for mom's necklace (greek coin to replace the one she lost). I also bought taarini a necklace and myself a ring. For dinner we went to this delicious place in town (zheela/becca/emma/marj/angela/liz/myself). They had homemade pastas (many awesome varieties). I had linguine with fresh mussels- absolutely delicious. They also had great dips for the breads- olive, feta, and plain olive oil. Again we went dancing. This time it ended up being mostly Marj/I wandering around- we also ran into Cynthia (classmate from highschool here on a greek heritage program)! It was quite exciting. Marj and I also saw a few delightful drag queens. We also had various sketchy encounters. We went to one club the most (down under) so much so that the bouncers offered to give us a ride to Club Paradise. I'm sad we didn't go to Club Paradise- it's supposed to be the best club in Greece it's on paradise beach. The club doesn't get going till about 5 am though and we had to leave at 5 for our flight. So, pulled an all nighter.

Sunday we got back super early and all of us pretty much just slept all day.