Day 9 – August 14th, 2006

This morning we arrived in Mykonos, one of the Greek Isles. After a nice room service breakfast on the balcony, we got ready to see what this island had to offer. We decided not to go on a formal tour today, but to explore a bit on our own.

When we got off the boat, we took a shuttle into Mykonos Town. We were both expecting the island to be covered with bright white sand beaches as far as the eye could see with crystal blue waters. Well, it wasn’t exactly what we were expecting. We walked for a few minutes through the quaint but kind of dirty little town, and finally found a small (very small) beach. The sand was littered with cigarette butts and trash, and it was clear by the plethora of blue and white striped Princess towels that this was clearly just a tourist spot. Oh well, it’s a beach, we settled down for a bit.

The water was amazingly clear. We waded out for a while and enjoyed looking out one way to the vast openness of the Mediterranean, and the other towards all of the identical white buildings with blue shutters dotting the hillside. We could see little fish swimming around our legs in the water. Seth enjoyed seeing them; they kinda freaked out Amy. The feelings may have been reversed had there been dogs in the water instead of fish.

After lying out to dry off, we walked through the town for a while. There wasn’t much to it. There were lots of little touristy shops and restaurants. Everything was completely Americanized, it looked like a city made just for tourists. Everything was in English. We suppose if we had taken a tour around to other parts of the island it would’ve been different. (sigh) As much as we’ve tried out local food joints, we figured “burgers and hot dogs” wasn’t exactly the local delicacy.

We got back on the boat in the afternoon and enjoyed the afternoon sun for a while by the pool. It was relaxing lying poolside, soaking up the sun while watching The Incredibles on the big screen theater screen outside by the pool. We enjoyed dinner tonight. Seth got some good spaghetti and meatballs and Amy tried Mahi Mahi for the first time. It was actually quite good! Then, another losing round at the casino (we’ve gotta stop this!) and to the movie under the stars- Mission Impossible 3. Another successful day on the waters…tomorrow it’s off to Istanbul!