I rode a donkey in Greece

September 21, 2013: Santorini
I had to be up early again today, this time to help with tendering. I collected tickets and talked with some of the guests until we hit open tender after only an hour and a half. Just in time to run up and get breakfast! I called Megan and she joined Emily and me for breakfast; we ended up staying there talking until 11. Megan and I went downstairs, changed and got off the ship to walk around Santorini.

I managed to convince Megan that we should take the donkeys up the mountain instead of the cable car, so we did that. It was interesting, at least they didn’t just set the donkeys off on their own like I’ve heard a lot of people talk about. We didn’t take a whole lot of pictures because Megan didn’t have time to get her camera out before they told her to get on the donkey, and I had my camera out, but it was a really bumpy ride! Someone did take pictures though, and had them printed out and waiting for us once we reached the top (for a price of course, but we bought them anyway, 4 euros to have the documentation that you rode a donkey in Greece isn’t bad).

We just wandered around taking pictures until we ran into part of the photo team, we joined up with them for lunch and internet, and ended up walking down the mountain (on the slippery donkey path/steps). I definitely do NOT recommend walking down! I slid and fell quite a few times, got cut off from the others by a train of donkeys, got squished against the wall by a donkey and just slid down a few of the steps a lot It’s a dangerous way to go.

Once we got back to the ship, I decided to go through some of my pictures from the last few days, but ended up inadvertently taking a nap instead. Megan and I split did the two night shifts together again, we played Skip-Bo, Super Mario Bros, air hockey, foosball, made paper airplanes and played hide-and-seek with the kids. A pretty busy night for us. After work, we ended up playing Skip-Bo in the OB for a while, talking to a few people and attempted to be somewhat social in our exhausted state. It’s another busy day tomorrow, I have port day, and there’s a crew party (in Club HAL of all places… they’re going to be trying to set up while we have kids there, should be interesting; we’ll see how that turns out.).