We left on the morning of March 24th to go on a short cruise around the Greek Islands. That same day we sailed to the Isle of Patmos, where John received his Revelation. We went up some mountain and saw St. John's monastery and then went to the cave where John wrote it all down. It was pretty interesting because they are at least pretty certain that they have the right sites for the events that happened there.
The cruise ship was pretty decent. It was much smaller than the other ships I've been on, but it was still better than I expected. A lot of people in our group went to the club/bar/whatever it is room and danced with a bunch of teenage girls. It was pretty funny to watch. It wasn't actually as creepy as it sounds. I didn't stay in there for long because I went to do other stuff, but it was still fun.
The next day we sailed to Rhodes for Greek National Day. There were a lot of parades and whatnot going on. Cody and I walked around for roughly two hours looking for an ATM. Turns out if we had turned left when we left the dock we would have ran right into one. It's over now, though. Rhodes was really nice, though, because there are a lot of castle walls still standing. The Colossus isn't, though.
The next day we went to Crete and went to see Knossos, which is supposedly the home of the Minotaur. We didn't have much time there because we had to sail to Santorini, where most of our group got off for a weekend of free travel.
I went with Caitlin, Cody, Calea, Shannon, and Jane to stay in Perissa, which is a small town on Santorini. It was really nice there. We were the first guests of the season to stay in our hostel so we got free breakfast every morning and that was really nice. There was some random American from San Francisco named Steve that worked there. He was pretty awesome. He really helped us out a lot.
The first day there we just took a bus to Fira, which is the main city. All we did was walk around and shop some. It was pretty fun, though. The next day we rented ATVs and rode all the way around the island. We pretty much went from end to end. That was really a blast. I would recommend going to look at my Santorini pictures. It was pretty awesome there. We ended the day by going to watch the sunset and then riding back in the dark. Cody and Calea got a little lost because Cody swore he knew the right way back but he was wrong. The rest of us did just fine, though.
The next morning we rode on a ferry for something like 10 hours to get back to Athens. Then the buses stopped running and Tim and Dr. Fred had to come pick us up. What great guys.
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