Wednesday 5/27/09

After going to the museum, we went back to the area around our hotel and had dinner. Then we went back to our room and got ready to go. Our ride picked us up at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday and we went to the port and got on a ferry to the Greek islands.

We spent most of the day on Wednesday on the ferry boat. The boat left at 7:30 a.m. and we stopped at three different islands before arriving at Santorini at around 3:30 in the afternoon. The ferry was really nice – we had seats inside but we only spent a few hours there (mostly sleeping) then we went up on deck for the rest of the trip. The water is so incredibly blue here! All of the islands look pretty much the same from the port. They are very dry looking – a lot like Phoenix – with no trees and lots of cute white buildings, many with dome roofs. Very picturesque.

When we finally got to Santorini, it was kind of weird leaving the boat. We had to put our luggage in a room when we boarded the boat so everyone had to go down, pick up luggage, and then they had us go stand in the area with the cars while we pulled up to the shore. We had to stand there while the gigantic and very loud ramp for the cars came down. It was kind of weird but interesting too.

I watched this show one time about a ferry boat that sank in 2001 near the first Greek island we stopped at, Paros, and now I can understand how a ferry can sink so quickly after seeing how big that opening is for the cars.