We got up early to meet the group for breakfast at Hotel Hermes, where we had toast and eggs and yogurt with honey and fruit. I was delighted by this, as I LOVE yogurt. Dave was not so excited, as he loathes it. Ah well. It's good for ya.
We gathered up our stuff and walked to Syntagma Square to meet our coach to take us to Pireaus Port, about 20 min away. Once we got there we had to wait in line until customs opened up and let us board the cruise ship. Greece runs on "ish-time" which means they start things 9-ish... While standing in line we made friends with some Australians. Finally, about 9:45 or so we were on board. As we boarded we were given blue swipe cards and had our picture taken. The swipe cards would be our boarding pass onto the ship as well as our payment for drinks aboard the ship.
We went to our room, which was little more than a box with 2 beds across from each other. Our bathroom wasn't much larger than a closet and the closet wasn't much bigger than a ... I don't know. It was small.
We had a lifejacket trial run at 11. Dave and I took pictures of each other looking super cool.
After the lifejacket thing we went and paid for our all inclusive drinks package on the boat, which entitled us to as much as we wanted to drink between 10am and 2am. Not too bad since drinks on the boat were like, 4.75euros, and the drinks package was 20euros a day.
We spent the day on deck reading and such. Eventually we arrived in Mykonos. We had to take tender boats over to shore. Once on shore Haley, our tour guide showed us around the island before letting us free. Dave and I walked around took pictures and then went to find somewhere to eat. We had some saganaki (fried cheese) and greek beer. After that we went to an internet cafe to let the world know we were still alive.
We had to be back on board by about 8pm, so we got back early. Once on board we went and found some dinner in the buffet and then wandered into the pub. Sitting at the table were 2 of the guys from our group so we introduced ourselves.
These guys were from NZ and they were just hilarious. We heard all kinds of stories, about their 21st birthday, about a "ginger pig" that kept coming around, and about how the one guy is always "spewing" (stories that were always accompanied with "blech!" sounds to illustrate exactly what spewing consisted of).
Eventually we ended up at the pool bar, sitting and drinking until they shut down. After that the guys went down to the disco (which we named "the highschool dance" due to the amount of awkward teenager types trying to woo each other with their lame dance skills...) and Dave and I went to bed. In our separate beds across the room from each other.
5:30 am was going to come early.
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