Spring Break 2011 - Island Hopping

The amazing blur that was our spring break had finally come to an end. Michael and I stepped off our 8 hour ferry ride back to Athens, heads hung low, not looking forward to the hectic catch up we needed to play before school started back up on Monday. Those two weeks went by so fast and now we came back to the painful realization that our semester ended in 21 days. After getting back to our place, sulking the entire way back, we got a text message from our friend Amy and she wanted us to meet her and her bf, who came to visit, out. When we got there they asked us how our spring break went and what we did, Michael and I looked at each other with baffled frowns and said to each other,"Holy shit! What did we do on spring break?"....

Mykonos:
"It's time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead, I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, bad grass is growing. It's time to move on, it's time to get going." -Tom Petty~Time to Move On

Little Venice

The Windmills

Driving through the river to get to the Secret Beach

We claimed the Secret Beach

Dancing and singing in the rain

Bye Mykonos

Santorini:
"Load the car and write the note. Grab your bag and grab your coat. Tell the ones that need to know. We are headed north.
One foot in and one foot back. But it don't pay, to live like that. So i cut the ties and i jumped the tracks. For never to return." -Avett Brothers~I and Love and You

Michael rock Climbing on Santorini

Oia

The Canadians: Some of the coolest girls we have met so far

Needless to say we had a blast

Bones on the beach

Octopus Pasta

Wine Tasting: Never do this when you are hung over

Michael and I thought we were reliving the movie Hostel, after we saw our hostel owner setting this up outside our room. Note the meat hook and the clever on the table.

Crete:
"Ramble On, And now's the time, the time is now, to sing my song. I'm goin' 'round the world, I got to find my girl, on my way. I've been this way ten years to the day, Ramble On,
Gotta find the queen of all my dreams." -Led Zeppelin~Ramble On

Rented a car

And to your left there is a horse: 3000 year old olive tree

3 of the cutest puppies ever

Aqueducts

Grape vines and Olive trees for miles

Knossos Palace

My name is Bruce: The CretAquarium

Heading back to Athens:
"Reading departure signs in some big airport. Reminds me of the places I've been. Visions of good times that brought so much pleasure. Makes me want to go back again. If it suddenly ended tomorrow. I could somehow adjust to the fall. Good times and riches and son of a bitches. I've seen more than I can recall." -Jimmy Buffett~Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

Through the Ferry Window: Sunset on a great trip.

And just like that all our great memories and times we had came flashing back. Looking through these photos was like pealing through a flip book of our spring break. Each picture has its own story and memory attached, but this blog post would be way to long if I told each one of them.

*We would like to send out our gratitude to the Barry parents for sharing your stories and your philosophies on life. Thank you so much too for letting us stay with you and for feeding our poor college stomachs. Another thanks to Lorelle Convery, Lauren Coutts, and Kiersten Foster for being some of the coolest chicks we have met on our trip. Also, thank you to Christos AR for giving us the opportunity to come work for you this summer. We are very happy to have met all these wonderful people and to be able to share our experiences with them.

"Come back baby, 'Cause I'd like to say, I've been around the world, Back from Bombay.
Fox hole love, Pie in your face, Living in and out, Of a big fat suitcase.
Bonafide ride, Step aside my Johnson, Yes I could, In the woods of Wisconsin.
Wake up the cake, It's a lake she's kissin' me, As they do when, When they do in Sicily.
I know I know for sure, That life is beautiful around the world, I know I know it's you, You say hello and then I say I do." - Red Hot Chili Peppers~Around the World