I'm sitting in my beautiful, wonderful hostel in Santorini enjoying a gyro and a bottle of wine. What could be better? We've spent the last three days here on the island of Santorini. It's this beautiful little island south of the main land of Greece, and it's where the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was filmed if you've ever seen that movie. Poppi, the owner of the hostel we have been staying at, is the nicest little Greek woman. She picked us up at the dock where our ferry came in, upgraded our room to a suite, and is driving us back to the dock in a couple of hours so that we can catch our ferry back to Athens. Not only that, but she has been making us a homemade breakfast every morning, and she ordered us some lunch just now because she thought we needed to eat and gave us a bottle of wine on the house. I think I could stay here forever. I don't want to leave! It has definitely been a fun-filled week. On Sunday when our ship docked in Athens, we spent the day wandering around Athens... we went to the Acropolis and saw the Partheon. It was awesome to see, but I'm glad that we decided not to stay in Athens all week. On Monday morning, as we were walking to the ferry to go to Santorini, we walked past taxi after taxi after taxi that were just lined up and parked in the middle of the roads. We knew that the taxis were probably going to go on strike, but we had no idea what to expect. This was all that I got to see of it, fortunately, but we heard that it got out of control. All of the taxis in Athens went on strike, refusing to even move to the side of the roads. They blocked in buses and other vehicles, and since they refused to move the buses couldn't move either. This caused the police to come, which caused riots all over Athens. Many taxis were even set on fire. Needless to say, I'm glad I spent my time in Santorini laying on the beach rather than being stuck on the ship. We spent the last few days playing on the beach and swimming in the ocean. It was just the mini vacation that I needed!

We are heading back to Athens in a couple of hours, and will get there tonight. I'm hoping that things are cleared up, and that tomorrow morning I will be to walk around Athens one last time before we head off to Bulgaria. I don't have time to upload pictures from Greece yet, but will hopefully be able to tomorrow or while I'm in Bulgaria.