Mykonos

We finally have internet again here on Naxos.  We arrived here yesterday after staying on Mykonos for three days.  When we arrived on Mykonos we did not have a place to stay so when we got off the ferry we were surrounded by a throng, what Lonely Planet guidebook calls a “raucous scrum” of people trying to get us to stay at their hotel or hostel.  One woman grabbed us and her place on the beach sounded good so we hopped in her car and she drove us there, a distance of three or four kilometers.  We had a very nice two room  little condo with kitchenette and a swimming pool,  just down from the beach in a town called Ornos.  Our hostess was really sweet.  she kept calling me “sweet lady” and she was very helpful.  We were surprized that all the craziness at the port worked out so well.

Mykonos definitely felt like the college party island.

The popular beaches are Paradise and (f paradise isn’t enough for you, you can go on t0) Super Paradise.  We felt we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get two tickets to paradise (the boys were free), so we took a boat from Ornos to Paradise.  The beach included a nude section which we somehow ended up next to (coincidentally!).  We didn’t mind the nudity (the boys just said to us: “Mom, Dad, those people are naked!”) but the conversation from the college boys was quite entertaining.   “Dude, It’s like seeing your mom naked!”  So, paradise wasn’t perfect but as we waited for the boat back the partying at the clubs started so the boys and I had our own dance party on the beach.  (We returned to the beach area where the boat to take us back to Ornos was to be, and looked up at the sign, which said, last boat to Ornos, 5:30, and looked at our watch, 5:12.  The guy looks at us, I say Ornos, and he says, um, that left two minutes ago, we could see it going around the bend.  I point to the sign, and he shakes his head, saying I know, I know, they always come at the wrong time.  Then he  was great, he made four or give calls on radio and cell phone, and arrranged for us to take another boat, to have that boat go the extra distance to make sure we got back.  Then he walked over to the bar, got a magic marker, stood up on his chair, crossed out Ornos 5:30, and wrote in Ornos, 5:10.   It gave us a little taste of why, on the T shirt of the staffing of Heaven and hell, the Germans organize everything in Heaven, and the Greeks organize everything in Hell.)

One of our days there we went to the archeological museum of Mykonos (our 28th museum of the trip) which was filled almost entirely with reconstructed pots from Delos (Jonathan will write about our terrific visit to Delos).  Nate was in kind of a silly mood so he started dancing around the museum.  I started having flashes of all the slapstick movies we have seen, envisioning Nate knocking one pot into the next and destroying all of them.  I decided we should wait outside until Spencer and Jonathan were done.  The museums here have signs that say “No Flash and No Photographs with the items and people”.  For some reason you are not allowed to take pictures which have people adjacent to the museum collections… we don’t know why?

Mykonos town was fun to explore, the narrow alleyways of white and blue.  We found the boys a nutella crepe and me a new blue bikini.  My last purchase of the trip, really, really (we will see) and definitely worth it.

OK OK So this is Jessica Alba and not me!  I do not look like that after all the Baklava but I still like my new bikini!

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